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Editors’ Note

Issue 20: Lessons

K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) 8/22/24 K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) 8/22/24

Hornets

“Hornets are trying to live too, making their nests. Humans have inside them envy and cruelty and pride and so on and hornets, well, they have a bit of poison.”

Lucrecia Zappi 8/22/24 Lucrecia Zappi 8/22/24

Eleonor/Eleonora

“Was she out there somewhere, and what was she doing? And how had she survived the same ordeal as me?”

Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) 8/22/24 Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) 8/22/24

Flowers

“Neither the strange currents of love nor water on the verge of thirst — nothing in this world can compare to the pleasure offered by observing this flower.”

Ingvild H. Rishøi (Tr. Caroline Waight) 8/22/24 Ingvild H. Rishøi (Tr. Caroline Waight) 8/22/24

Words of Wisdom

A poem.

Xi Xi (Tr. Jennifer Feeley) 8/22/24 Xi Xi (Tr. Jennifer Feeley) 8/22/24

Butcher Ding

“I never expected that tai chi sword would become a special type of physical therapy for me.”

Oğuz Atay (Tr. Ralph Hubbell) 8/22/24 Oğuz Atay (Tr. Ralph Hubbell) 8/22/24

Man in a White Overcoat

“The coat fit him like a glove. The vendor spun him around, and the flared skirt fluttered outward.”

Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/8/24 Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/8/24

Telefon

“Whenever he sees the phone, he thinks about calling his mother.”

Eva Baltasar (Tr. Julia Sanches) 8/8/24 Eva Baltasar (Tr. Julia Sanches) 8/8/24

Mammoth

“It was time. I spotted him on the terrace, made my approach, took away his glass, and stubbed out his cigarette.”

Noémi Kiss-Deáki 8/8/24 Noémi Kiss-Deáki 8/8/24

The Rabbit Dream

“Men are stupid. They are so stupid, they will believe this. Everyone will hear about us. And, if you play your part well, Mary, you might even become rich.”

Claudia Piñeiro (Tr. Frances Riddle) 8/8/24 Claudia Piñeiro (Tr. Frances Riddle) 8/8/24

Time of the Flies

“So that’s what I call myself when I’m alone, the name Charo wrote in lip liner at the end of the letters she sent to Ernesto, my husband. Excuse me, my ex-husband.”

Hafsah Nassir Mujalli (Tr. Sawad Hussain) 8/8/24 Hafsah Nassir Mujalli (Tr. Sawad Hussain) 8/8/24

محظوظ (“Lucky”)

A poem.

The Dial 8/8/24 The Dial 8/8/24

Summer Reading List

Recommendations from Dial contributors.

Claudia Peña Claros (Tr. Robin Myers) 8/8/24 Claudia Peña Claros (Tr. Robin Myers) 8/8/24

Child

“This child isn’t mine, but he won’t let me go.”

The Dial 8/8/24 The Dial 8/8/24

Editors’ Note

Issue 19: Fiction

The Dial 8/7/24 The Dial 8/7/24

Reporting on Venezuela’s ‘Last Shot at Change’

A conversation with Lucía Cholakian Herrera who was in Venezuela to cover the July 28 presidential election that has plunged the country into a democratic crisis.

Ryan Lenora Brown & Majirata Latela 8/4/24 Ryan Lenora Brown & Majirata Latela 8/4/24

The True Price of Sportswear

Workers at an athletic apparel factory in Lesotho that make clothes for Reebok, The Greg Norman Collection, and others allege assault, humiliation, intimidation, and bullying.