A new law in Peru was supposed to shield beaches from development and oil spills. It’s not being enforced. Sabrina Weiss reports on the law's gaps, and the local initiative to protect the country's waters and shorelines: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

“Am I Now in Exile?” Fleeing Bukele, by El Faro journalists for @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

“I heard of a young man, traveling the world, who had taken with him a Welsh dictionary. Our language, and its alphabet, are unique. but of this that man couldn’t bear to speak. Read “Three Words Towards the Death of our Language,” by Karen Owen. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

“A team of academics with Powerpoint graphics is expounding on the decline, death and disappearance of the world’s minority languages.” Read “The Sea Organ at Zadar,” a poem by Siân Northey, translated from Welsh by Robert Minhinnick www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

This week, we bring you three poems translated from Welsh on the mixed feelings of speaking a disappearing language. “OK, I understand / what you're thinking. / And yes, it can be dispiriting." Read “To Translate,” by Llŷr Gwyn, translated by Robert Minhinnick www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

1/ In a firsthand account of repression and exile, two Salvadoran journalists report on their exodus from El Salvador, unable to return home after breaking a story on President Nayib Bukele’s pact with the country's gangs. “[Bukele] was shown as he really is: the gang members’ political partner.”

This year’s Nonprofit Newcomer of the Year is Mara Wilson, who has transformed @thedialmag.bsky.social as managing editor.

Putin is erasing Ukrainian culture. In Mariupol, museum exhibitions have been closed, historical artifacts stolen and destroyed, school curriculums overhauled and more. Yegor Mostovshikov reports: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

1/ Dear readers, The Dial is evolving. You talked, we listened — and have made a few changes to our magazine.

unexpected and very nice to have a piece I wrote for the dial about baseball last year selected for this anthology! ⚾ the piece is here: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

1/ Today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has organized a campaign to denounce the killing of over 200 journalists in Gaza by the Israeli army and demand international media access to the territory. The Dial stands with RSF and our colleagues. rsf.org/fr/plus-de-2...

1/ Why are serious discussions of reparations so rare in the Arab political world—and in Egypt in particular? Youssef Rakha turned to the novels of Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim, who died last week, for answers: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

1/ In an excerpt from "The Competition of Unfinished Stories," Sener Ozmen’s forthcoming novel translated by Nicholas Glastonbury, an art teacher at a school for imams remembers his childhood. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

In “Burial at Sea,” a short story by Karim Kattan set in Palestine in the summer of 2019, the narrator loses a lover on a cruise vacation and reckons with their grief: www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

"I read of dogs furiously digging holes in the ground to escape the 35-degree heat. Children fainting during assembly early in the morning." @arielsaramandi.bsky.social for @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Our Top 5: • Mapping the scars (@slate.com) • A parent, twice met (@newyorker.com) • Paradise in peril (@thedialmag.bsky.social) • Hallucinating war @thepointmag.bsky.social) • Wriggly business (@thelocal.to) longreads.com/2025/08/15/t...

This month, we bring you an issue full of fiction! Many of the stories — which come from Poland, Brazil, Uzbekistan and elsewhere — take on "the most visceral and direct aspects of the self," Madeleine Schwartz writes in our Editors' Note: www.thedial.world/articles/iss...

Read Yau Ching's poem, "Highway," translated by Chenxin Jiang: www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Following the fall of the Assad regime, Lynzy Billing traveled to Damascus to comb through the archives of the Syrian civil war. Up to 200,000 people were disappeared. She photographed objects of prisoners and records of those arrested or who have gone missing: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Today is the last day to get The Dial's reading list! Donate to our summer fundraising campaign, and we'll send you 50 recommendations from Dial contributors around the world. www.thedial.world/summer-readi...

The Dial was founded to bring more international voices into English-language media. If you value the essays, journalism and literature we publish please consider giving to our summer fundraising campaign, and we'll send you a reading list of more than 50 titles! www.thedial.world/summer-readi...

1/ Showing a friend along the coast of Mauritius, Ariel Saramandi felt like a “tourist guide of disaster, of death in the making.” All around the island, communities and wildlife are being crushed under shifting and intensifying weather conditions. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

"I read books written mostly by white men in supremely rich countries on how to think about climate disaster. Some concepts I understand in my body ... heat like honey glistening all over my skin, so viscous that showering won’t remove the stickiness." www.thedial.world/articles/new...

In Mauritius, jellyfish are dying, the seas are boiling; the climate dystopia we fear for the future has already arrived, Ariel Saramandi writes: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

“When you live long enough inside a scientific and technological marvel you start to get used to it.” Read “My Name is Sun,” an Uzbek short story by Suhbat Aflatuni, that was recently featured at the Venice Biennale, translated by Sabrina Jaszi. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

The Dial is committed to paying journalists, writers and translators fairly. We need our readers to help us fulfill that mission! Join our summer fundraising campaign before August 1, and we'll send you a reading list of more than 50 titles: www.thedial.world/summer-readi...

Carey Baraka, in his review of Mariana Dimópulos and J.M. Coetzee’s new book "Speaking in Tongues," expresses frustration that in Coetzee’s efforts to challenge the linguistic dominance of English, he is still blind to global power dynamics in translation. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Up to 200,000 people were disappeared or went missing under the Assad regime in Syria. After the fall of Damascus in December, Lynzy Billing visited newly opened prisons and government sites to photograph documents and objects of the victims of Assad’s brutality. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

More than 100 aid agencies warn of mass starvation in Gaza. Why has famine become a modern tool of war? Last year, Sarah Nouwen talked with the executive director of the World Peace Foundation and the UN's special rapporteur on the right to food: www.thedial.world/articles/sta...

Meara Sharma reports on a local movement against the quarrying industry in Carrara. Not only has marble mining taken a toll on the area’s biodiversity and water quality, the industry is also damaging the region’s economy. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

The Dial has book recommendations! Lily Meyer recommends a memoir that is “horny, gossipy, intimate, bitchy, moving.” Lavender Au suggests a novel she returns to for “its clarity and its subtle treatment of personal responsibility.” Donate to receive the list: www.thedial.world/summer-readi...

Donate to The Dial before Aug. 1 and you’ll receive our exclusive reading list of more than 50 titles! As a nonprofit, we are proud to offer all our articles to readers for free. Your support allow us to continue to make our work accessible to all. Donate today: www.thedial.world/summer-readi...

For The Dial, I blurbed The Lucky Ones, by Zara Chowdhary. Check out all of The Dial's Best Books of Summer 2025: www.thedial.world/summer-readi... @thedialmag.bsky.social @awarazara.bsky.social ‬

The Dial is a super mag, which I've had the pleasure of contributing to a couple of times. For its summer reading list I recommended one book I can't stop thinking about – Dirty Work by @epress.bsky.social Check out the full list and donate to support unique and independent journalism :)

I recommended my favorite travel memoir—"The Way of the World" (originally "L'usage du monde") by Nicolas Bouvier—for @thedialmag.bsky.social's fundraiser-cum-summer reading list. It's truly a wonderful and eclectic list, but you'll have to donate at the link below to get access!

This summer, if you donate to The Dial you’ll receive our exclusive book list from 35 of our contributors. The diversity of the list reflects the diversity of our writers and reporters, who are based in China, Turkey, India, Switzerland and elsewhere. www.thedial.world/summer-readi...

Had the pleasure of contributing a couple suggestions to @thedialmag.bsky.social's summer reading list, linked below. A dreamy—bad dream-y—novel for the Latam and politics heads; a polemic for the river lovers. Both great.

The hardest part of summer reading is choosing the right book. We asked more than 35 Dial contributors to recommend a title they love or are looking forward to opening. Donate to The Dial to receive the list: www.thedial.world/summer-readi...

1/ Every morning in Barbados, horses from one of the oldest racetracks in the Americas & Caribbean go for a swim in the ocean. People gather at the beach as the sun rises to catch a glimpse of the daily exercises. Ana Sotelo shares photos of the ritual: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

The UN is experiencing a massive overhaul due to years of a financial crisis. Isabelle Mayault reports on what went wrong and how the international institution plans to cut back: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

More stellar news: you can now read two poems from Selma Asotić's collection SAY FIRE (self-translated by the author) forthcoming from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in September—over @thedialmag.bsky.social! www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

The UN is knee-deep in a liquidity crisis. From Geneva, Isabelle Mayault reports on the deep structural weaknesses in financial oversight and ethics enforcement at the international institution — and the massive overhaul that’s underway. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

1/ The stories in this month’s issue, Fever, take on various issues that have reached peak intensity. We’ll bring you a report on the UN’s liquidity crisis, snapshots from Mauritius where climate disaster brings freak tornadoes and jellyfish “explosions,” a photo essay of swimming horses and more.

In his review of J.M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos’ new book "Speaking in Tongues," Carey Baraka argues that Coetzee’s project to undermine the global dominance of the English language is hindered by its blindness to linguistic power dynamics more broadly. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

In a review of J.M. Coetzee’s new book, about language and translation, co-written with the translator Mariana Dimόpulos, Carey Baraka delves into questions of authorship, mother tongues and the dominance of English as a global language: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Congratulations to Ryan Lenora Brown & Majirata Latela, whose Dial investigation into abuses at a Lesotho factory that produces sportswear for American clothing companies won the @oneworldmedia.bsky.social award in the Print category! www.thedial.world/articles/new...

🎥One World Media Awards-Print Winner🎉 The True Price of Sportswear exposes abuse faced by female factory workers in Lesotho, from bullying to assault, and pressure to lie to inspectors. 📺Watch: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Fantastic news and great work by Ryan Lenora Brown & Majirata Latela for @thedialmag.bsky.social !

In a series of drawings, illustrator Nishant Jain reflects on why he decided to start sketching his young son. The value of drawing is not in the quality of art, Jain writes, "but the cumulative documentation of moments and days and months that I paid attention." www.thedial.world/articles/new...

On Monday, Israel struck Iran’s Evin prison, known for the intellectuals, activists, artists and students who have served time there—many of whom are fighting for democracy. In 2024, we published five Iranian women’s accounts of their life behind bars in Evin. www.thedial.world/articles/new...