Bruna Dantas Lobato 10/3/24 Bruna Dantas Lobato 10/3/24

Blue Light Hours

“In the movie of my life in America, the one my mother liked to watch, a young woman sits alone in her bedroom and calls her mother each night on a computer.”

The Dial 10/3/24 The Dial 10/3/24

Editors’ Note

Issue 21: America

Chris Knapp, Giada Santana, & Juli Simond 9/26/24 Chris Knapp, Giada Santana, & Juli Simond 9/26/24

The Toxic Legacy of the French Banana

France knew the pesticide chlordecone could cause cancer and destroy the environment. It allowed banana plantations in Martinique and Guadeloupe to use it anyway.

Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24 Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24

Gabÿ, Tree, Goose

Three poems.

Greta Rybus 9/19/24 Greta Rybus 9/19/24

The World’s Hot Springs

A photographer’s encounter with natural springs, thermal pools and public baths — and the people who care for them.

Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24 Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24

After

“I ran through the school gates and jumped on my bike without looking back, five kilometers down this road more familiar than even my mother’s voice, and which was suddenly evasive, distant, like a laminated picture under a transparent film.”

Jorge C. Carrasco 9/17/24 Jorge C. Carrasco 9/17/24

To Rebuild or Relocate?

Brazil’s south reckons with how to respond to extreme floods.

Emily Schultheis 9/12/24 Emily Schultheis 9/12/24

The Grassroots Organization Taking on Germany’s Growing Far Right

After Serpil Temiz Unvar’s son was murdered in a violent attack targeting immigrants, she founded an organization that could take on Germany’s increasingly popular far right movement.

The Dial 9/10/24 The Dial 9/10/24

Listening to the Amazon

A conversation with Paloma De Dinechin, whose reporting on the scientists recording the sounds of the Amazon rainforest was published in our Lessons issue.

Ben Crair 9/10/24 Ben Crair 9/10/24

England’s Squirrel Obsession

Campaigns to save the red squirrel, and cull non-native grays, have little to do with ecology.

Nicole Dirks 9/5/24 Nicole Dirks 9/5/24

To the Ends of the Earth

Does radical activism help or hurt the climate movement?

Paloma De Dinechin & Nicola Zolin (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 9/5/24 Paloma De Dinechin & Nicola Zolin (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 9/5/24

The Rainforest Speaks

Scientists are recording the sounds of the Amazon in a bid to better protect it.

Natasha Wheatley 9/5/24 Natasha Wheatley 9/5/24

Don’t Take Advice From a Habsburg

Eduard Habsburg, with the help of his royal ancestors, wants to fix your marriage, your soul, and your politics.

The Dial 9/5/24 The Dial 9/5/24

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.”