Julia Webster Ayuso 11/21/24 Julia Webster Ayuso 11/21/24

Can a Comma Solve a Crime?

How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.

The Dial 11/19/24 The Dial 11/19/24

Stories from the Kurdistan Region

A conversation with Winthrop Rodgers, whose article on efforts to preserve Yazidi oral storytelling was published in our Language issue.

Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III (Tr. Kristine Ong Muslim) 11/19/24 Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III (Tr. Kristine Ong Muslim) 11/19/24

In Loving Memory: Soldado Tenso Conserbado (1898-1976)

“Conserbado believed that everything he wrote was God’s gift to mankind.”

Ross Perlin 11/14/24 Ross Perlin 11/14/24

AI Won’t Protect Endangered Languages

Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.

Winthrop Rodgers 11/14/24 Winthrop Rodgers 11/14/24

Saving Yazidi Song

In the face of genocide, displacement and technology, a new project hopes to preserve an oral storytelling tradition from Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.

Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight) 11/12/24 Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight) 11/12/24

Death in Grammar

“Oh, how I admire the capacity of the Spanish language to express uncertainty so precisely!”

Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24 Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24

Earshot

“Day after day, I kept turning up the volume of the music, but it only seemed further and further away. After a few months, it had disappeared completely.”

The Dial 11/12/24 The Dial 11/12/24

Editors’ Note

Issue 22: Language

Lucía Cholakian Herrera 11/7/24 Lucía Cholakian Herrera 11/7/24

‘I Don’t Know What They’ll Do With Us’

For immigrants from Latin America in New York, Donald Trump’s victory ignites anxiety.

Joshua Posaner 10/31/24 Joshua Posaner 10/31/24

Defense in an Age of Uncertainty

Notes from the European Defence and Security Conference.

Suzy Hansen 10/30/24 Suzy Hansen 10/30/24

Hello To All That

What returning to New York after 12 years in Istanbul taught me about America.

Jasmine Stole Weiss 10/24/24 Jasmine Stole Weiss 10/24/24

Meet You at Kmart

On Guam, the struggling retail giant is the place to be.

Danielle Mackey 10/22/24 Danielle Mackey 10/22/24

How the Biden Administration Failed El Salvador

The Salvadoran president wanted the U.S. off his back. He got his wish.

Justin Salhani 10/17/24 Justin Salhani 10/17/24

“They Are Liars”

Israel’s attacks in Beirut, and American complicity in them, has confirmed for many Lebanese how little they matter to the United States.

George Blaustein 10/17/24 George Blaustein 10/17/24

Empire as Province: On Teaching American Studies in Amsterdam

The strategy, counterintuitive though it may seem, is to cultivate an America-fatigue in the classroom.

Lindsey Kennedy & Nathan Paul Southern 10/15/24 Lindsey Kennedy & Nathan Paul Southern 10/15/24

Cambodia’s Billion Dollar Scam

Thousands of people have been trafficked into the country to work in cyber scamming compounds built with Chinese money. Now they’re stuck there.

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.