American Abroad

Letters from your London correspondent on the absurdities of transatlantic life, building a media business on the internet, and immigration.

Tiara Darnell sits at a table with another diner, who laughs. Smiling customers fill tables in the background, along with a drum kit.

American Abroad

How do you walk away from a dream? This ex-Spotify producer, ex-restaurateur finds out (again)

In 2021, Tiara Darnell, a producer at Spotify, relocated to Mexico City. She soon opened its first Black soul food restaurant, the diaspora-connecting and now-closed Blaxicocina. We set the table at this intersection, discussing everything from “overnomadism” to burnout and finding new purpose.

American Abroad

How not to leave America: a letter to we the very online people of the divided states

During the political theatre of TikTok's brief death and President Donald Trump's first days back in office, your American Abroad correspondent in London received a waterfall of texts from people back home who want out.