Me and Lindsey Kennedy's latest for The Dial Magazine explores the Cambodian eilite behind the transformation of Cambodia into the cyber slavery and government connected mafia paradise that it has become. thedial.world/articles/news/…

1/ Teaching American Studies in an election year is a strange exercise—especially abroad, George Blaustein writes. An American Studies professor at the University of Amsterdam, Blaustein considers how the discipline has changed since the end of the Cold War. thedial.world/articles/news/…

For The Dial Magazine, the wonderful Suzy Hansen wrote about what returning to New York after 12 years in Istanbul taught her about America: "My long escape had come to an end." thedial.world/articles/news/…

"As long as its defense spending efforts are disjointed, the EU will make itself vulnerable — not only to a more aggressive Russia, but to a potentially more belligerent and less tolerant America," Josh Posaner writes for The Dial Magazine thedial.world/articles/news/…

What is, or was, American Studies? The Dial Magazine’s great “America” issue has my pedagogical confessions on teaching American Studies abroad. Freud calling America a “gigantic mistake”, a 90s-era Egyptian satire of Trump, Rip van Winkle, chewing gum, etc. thedial.world/articles/news/…

"I Don't Know What They'll Do With Us" — Lucía Cholakian Herrera reports for The Dial Magazine on how families in migrant shelters in New York are responding to Trump's victory thedial.world/articles/news/…

Overheated headlines have promised that AI will help ensure the survival of endangered languages. @RossPerlin explains in The Dial Magazine why bots will do more harm than good thedial.world/articles/news/…

Can a comma solve a crime? Julia Webster Ayuso reports on the world of forensic linguistics for The Dial Magazine thedial.world/articles/news/…

What is Duolingo actually teaching you? Lovely read from Imogen West-Knights on the world of the green owl and why it may not matter that it can't make you fluent The Dial Magazine thedial.world/articles/news/…

What makes a miracle? For The Guardian Long Read, I wrote about the Vatican's miracle investigations unit & spoke to the doctors who are asked to verify inexplicable recoveries & apparently miraculous cures: theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/…

"Suddenly, on the snow's sparkling white surface, I saw a woman’s black mitten. I stood riveted by the striking contrast of matte darkness and radiant white..." Andriy Sodomora's "THE MITTEN" tr. from Ukrainian by Roman Ivashkiv+me The Dial Magazine! 🇺🇦 ❄️ shorturl.at/AjOqC

On a recent trip to Kyiv, I met with agencies, doctors and surrogate mothers who say that despite Russia’s attacks, demand from foreign couples is near pre-war levels. I wrote about what's driving parents to Ukraine, concerns and safety for The Dial Magazine thedial.world/articles/news/…

Surrogacy During War — The Dial This is fascinating from The Dial Magazine. Brings up a lot of ethical, as well as logistical, questions. thedial.world/articles/news/…

How Geneva, where at least 32,000 people work in sectors heavily funded by the U.S., is grappling with Trump's foreign aid freeze — by the wonderful Isabelle Mayault for The Dial Magazine thedial.world/articles/state…

Banu Mushtaq "captures the casual violence inherent in India’s caste and class systems ... these incursions are often fleeting, yet painfully cruel, chipping away, little by little, at the good in us." Read "The Shroud" in The Dial Magazine thedial.world/articles/liter… And Other Stories

For The Dial Magazine, Caitlin L Chandler attended this year’s Munich Security Conference — her dispatch, co-published with The New York Review of Books, gives us a window into a world in which weapons spending trumps all else thedial.world/articles/news/…

Wrote about Pope Francis’s Argentina for The Dial Magazine

The #2025InternationalBooker-shortlisted Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (tr. Deepa Bhasthi) is out now! ✨ 'Exploring the lives of those often on the periphery of society, these vivid stories hold immense emotional and moral weight' – The Judges uk.bookshop.org/p/books/heartl…

A beautiful piece Kismet Magazine "We smoked cigarettes that were actually pencils. We danced elaborate waltzes with only our necks. We talked with our eyelashes, I swear." kismet-mag.com/issue-002/my-h…