The Dial 10/15/24 The Dial 10/15/24

Performing for America

A conversation with Carey Baraka, whose short story “The Sound of the Waves” was published in our America issue.

Clarissa Wei 10/10/24 Clarissa Wei 10/10/24

McDonald’s Macarons

How U.S. fast food took over the world — and then went local.

Carey Baraka 10/10/24 Carey Baraka 10/10/24

The Sound of the Waves

“It felt as if, the university having collected us, we were now on display, exotic specimen there to perform. And so we performed.”

Edwidge Danticat 10/8/24 Edwidge Danticat 10/8/24

This Is My Body

A reflection on violence and nourishment in America after experiencing a mass shooting hoax at a Florida mall.

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

The U.S. Election Abroad

Twelve writers tell us what the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris looks like where they live.

Lucía Cholakian Herrera 10/3/24 Lucía Cholakian Herrera 10/3/24

What Argentina Sees in Trump

The country’s far right found a model in the former U.S. president.

Alexander Aviña 10/3/24 Alexander Aviña 10/3/24

America Is Not America Yet

On American history and the history of the word “America.”

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.