The Dial 11/30/23 The Dial 11/30/23

Editors’ Note

Issue 10: Fakes

Eve Fairbanks 11/30/23 Eve Fairbanks 11/30/23

What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About South Africa

The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.

Ida Lødemel Tvedt 11/30/23 Ida Lødemel Tvedt 11/30/23

How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse.

Kaya Genç 11/28/23 Kaya Genç 11/28/23

Kawa Nemir’s translation is an archive of the language, which has been suppressed by Turkey's nationalist politics.

Ondřej Kundra (Tr. Alex Zucker) 11/21/23 Ondřej Kundra (Tr. Alex Zucker) 11/21/23

In Slovakia, a digitally altered video swung a recent national election.

John Gibler & Miguel Tovar (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 11/14/23 John Gibler & Miguel Tovar (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 11/14/23

El Salvador’s “regime of deception.”

Kim Ju-sŏng (Tr. Meredith Shaw) 11/14/23 Kim Ju-sŏng (Tr. Meredith Shaw) 11/14/23

“I felt like questioning my own existence. What are these people? Is this still North Korea?”

Snigdha Poonam 11/7/23 Snigdha Poonam 11/7/23

“Do you still love me knowing that I’m an assassin?” “Absolutely I do.”

Darya Kucherenko & Rita Loginova (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 11/7/23 Darya Kucherenko & Rita Loginova (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 11/7/23

Russian women embrace the rules of wartime femininity.

Jan-Werner Müller 11/7/23 Jan-Werner Müller 11/7/23

Mathias Döpfner’s new memoir The Trade Trap is part policy manifesto, part declamation of political beliefs.