"How We See It: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump" is out today!
Madeleine Schwartz (@mmschwartz.bsky.social) on how a mysterious papyrus fragment, an Oxford don, and a prominent family of American evangelicals became embroiled in papyrology’s biggest scandal
This story is utterly mind-blowing and I encourage you to read it
For @nybooks.com, I wrote about my professor the (alleged) papyri thief, and the long history of papyrological misdeeds www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Great to get “How We See It: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump” in my hands. I contributed the chapter on Canada. Huge thanks to the team at @thedialmag.bsky.social for the opportunity. There’s an amazing chapter on Ireland, too.
Check out the book here: www.thedial.world/how-we-see-it
Editor at The Dial (@thedialmag.bsky.social), writer there and elsewhere
The investigation into the origin of papyrus fragments that the owners of Hobby Lobby purchased from an Oxford scholar underscores papyrology’s long history of shady deals and ulterior motives.
Happy pub day! The Dial's first book "How We See It," a collection of 12 essays that examine how the world sees the U.S. in this political moment, comes out today. “To read this rich, subtle and moving anthology is to be reminded that it is often foreigners who understand us best," Adam Shatz says.
Madeleine Schwartz
Our 6/25 issue is now online, with @dchiasso.bsky.social on writing away from AI, Meghan O’Gieblyn on raising AI, Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Labour’s losses, @mmschwartz.bsky.social on the purloined papyrus, @fotoole.bsky.social on the president’s “greatness,” and much more.
The rest of the world is watching—and they have thoughts.
Eve Fairbanks and @mmschwartz.bsky.social join @tylermcbrien.com to discuss their new anthology on how journalists around the globe are making sense of Trump's America.
The New York Review of Books
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Happy #PublicationDay to HOW WE SEE IT edited by The Dial w/ an introduction by Madeleine Schwartz
Twelve talented international journalists probe their home countries’ complex relationship with the United States—and how this has swerved under the new administration. https://ow.ly/2jWL50Z6n65
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Lawfare
The New Press
The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle ha...
Huge thanks to Eve Fairbanks & @mmschwartz.bsky.social for joining me on the @lawfaremedia.org podcast to discuss @thedialmag.bsky.social's "How We See It: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump"—an essay collection from journalists probing their home countries' relationships to the U.S.
