Simen Sætre (Tr. Siân Mackie) 7/18/23 Simen Sætre (Tr. Siân Mackie) 7/18/23

Sins of the Salmon Kings

Every day, he releases one salmon from the pens into the sea, which gives him “an intoxicating feeling of control over life and death.”

Rania Mamoun (Tr. Yasmine Seale) 7/13/23 Rania Mamoun (Tr. Yasmine Seale) 7/13/23

Poems from “Something Evergreen Called Life”

“The River Stopped Its Flow” and “Who Am I?”

Kapka Kassabova 7/11/23 Kapka Kassabova 7/11/23

In the Ladies’ Pool

Time was replaced by water.

Kang-Chun Cheng 7/6/23 Kang-Chun Cheng 7/6/23

On the Shores of Lake Turkana

What happens to the animals when there's nothing to drink?

Ifeosa Anwulika Nkem-Onyekpe 7/4/23 Ifeosa Anwulika Nkem-Onyekpe 7/4/23

After the Flood

The water in Nigeria has now dried up, but its effects have not evaporated with it.

Kristina Berdynskykh (Tr. Dmytro Kyyan) 6/27/23 Kristina Berdynskykh (Tr. Dmytro Kyyan) 6/27/23

Finding Dry Land in Kherson

A Ukrainian journalist returns to her hometown after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

Xiaolu Guo 6/27/23 Xiaolu Guo 6/27/23

Of Rivers and Snakes

A filmmaker’s diary from the Thames and Yangtze rivers.

Kenneth R. Rosen 6/27/23 Kenneth R. Rosen 6/27/23

The Vanishing Breadbasket

Italy’s Po Valley is drying up. Who will feed the country now?

The Dial 6/22/23 The Dial 6/22/23

Abby Seiff and Sokummono Khan on Collaborative Reporting

A conversation with the authors of “The Danger of Microfinance,” published in our Debt issue.

The Dial 6/20/23 The Dial 6/20/23

Editors’ Note

Issue 5: Debt

Elisabeth Åsbrink 6/20/23 Elisabeth Åsbrink 6/20/23

My Literary Breakup

Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.

Jacob Kushner 6/15/23 Jacob Kushner 6/15/23

The Infrastructure Trap

Kenya's $5 billion railway to nowhere is exacerbating debt and corruption.

Emily Schultheis 6/13/23 Emily Schultheis 6/13/23

The Black Zero

Germany reappraises its financial fetish.

Joshua Kucera 6/8/23 Joshua Kucera 6/8/23

The Writing on the Wall

Georgia struggles to adjust to an influx of Russian exiles.

Sophie Poole 6/6/23 Sophie Poole 6/6/23

Undoing the Alhambra Decree

Is Spain’s citizenship program for Sephardic Jews the best way to right past wrongs?

Abby Seiff & Sokummono Khan 5/30/23 Abby Seiff & Sokummono Khan 5/30/23

The Danger of Microfinance

Small loans in Cambodia drown the poor and buoy the rich.

Snigdha Poonam 5/30/23 Snigdha Poonam 5/30/23

The Dark World of Deepfaked Debt

India’s online loan sharks are blackmailing borrowers with fake images.

Shin Hae-uk (Tr. Spencer Lee-Lenfield) 5/30/23 Shin Hae-uk (Tr. Spencer Lee-Lenfield) 5/30/23

Debt

A poem.

The Dial 5/25/23 The Dial 5/25/23

Lamia Ziadé on How Illustrating Can Elevate Storytelling

A conversation with the Lebanese writer and illustrator, whose work on the 2020 explosion in Beirut was featured in our Shipwrecks issue.

The Dial 5/23/23 The Dial 5/23/23

Editors’ Note

Issue 4: Shipwrecks