Issue 28 Is Here 🤭 With writing from @coramazov.bsky.social, James Ramsden, @heawood.bsky.social, @danielshailer.bsky.social, Lucy Peett, Clive Martin, Zara Meerza, @williamasclarke.bsky.social & many more www.the-fence.com/shop
Hannah Rosefield
@hannahrosefield.bsky.social
editing @ The Dial and elsewhere London Library emerging writer 25/26
"Models may be developed in one country and trained on servers in another before being deployed in digital systems and products worldwide. This makes it difficult for creators to determine where the copying has taken place and who is responsible." From Zoey Forbes: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Copyright Is Not Enough — The Dial
Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI.
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"A thousand times my cousins and I have spoken about our language derogatively, saying, 'it’s just a mix of English and German' or 'it’s *wrong* German.'" Eythana Miller on speaking / not speaking Pennsylvania Dutch with her family: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Our Amish Language — The Dial
As my community modernized, we used Pennsylvania Dutch less and less. Now I'm trying to preserve it.
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HOW WE SEE IT is out today! Brought to you by The Dial and 12 fantastic writers bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
How We See It: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump
The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump
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The first mass-produced book to deviate from a rectilinear format, at least in the United States, is thought to be this beautiful 1863 edition of Red Riding Hood, published by Boston-based publisher Louis Prang. Leaf through its person-shaped pages here: https://buff.ly/2xngjiv
who will do the investigative piece on who is buying the Palantir chore jackets
We’re publishing our first book! "How We See It" presents 12 essays that examine how the world sees the U.S. under Trump, featuring Kaya Genç, Natalya Gumenyuk, Eve Fairbanks, Saumya Roy and more. Pre-order here: bookshop.org/a/90971/9798...
On 8 April, to celebrate the publication of the new Guardian Long Read magazine, I'll be talking to the extremely brilliant @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social, Sirin Kale and @samirashackle.bsky.social at the Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town. Tickets here! owlbookshop.co.uk/product/the-...
Anna Juul reflects on the disappearance of physical mail in Denmark — and what a hyper-digital society gains and loses when letters, handwriting, and slower communication fade away: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The End of Mail in Denmark — The Dial
Who will mourn the last letter?
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"A more low-key event would be difficult to conceive": @imogenwk.bsky.social goes among the Wikipedians www.thedial.world/articles/new...
In Search of Wikipedia’s Saviors — The Dial
Can Tom, Betty, Patricia and Isidora rescue the site from AI?
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Late to this, but Granta's series on Indian languages is full of treasures granta.com/thirteen-ind...
From Assamese to Urdu | Thirteen Indian Languages | Granta
A symposium on languages of India published in Granta 173: India. This set of essays...
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What's the point of a global climate target? @sophieyeo.bsky.social on where 1.5C came from and where it's going: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What’s the Point of a Global Climate Target? — The Dial
Countries pledged to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Is it time to abandon it?
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"Each of Grosz's psychoanalytic case studies supplies a satisfaction akin to that of solving a crossword puzzle: it all fits!" I reviewed Love's Labour for @litreview.bsky.social literaryreview.co.uk/desire-disco...
Hannah Rosefield - Desire & Discontent
Hannah Rosefield: Desire & Discontent - Love's Labour by Stephen Grosz
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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...
The Cultural Dissonance of Watching Baseball in London — The Dial
A hot dog, a Pimm’s cup and two national anthems.
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Triumph Books@triumphbooks.bsky.social · 11mo agoHanif Abdurraqib has curated an extraordinary collection showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. We're honored to announce this year's featured writers! Pre-order The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025 today: buff.ly/7gs9meT
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 :)
The Dial@thedialmag.bsky.social · last yr.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...
"The ego-trip of the writer who, heavy-laden with the weight of literary glory, believes himself to be nobly casting off some of that glory while in fact drawing further attention to it. " Carey Baraka takes on J.M. Coetzee's Speaking in Tongues: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
J.M. Coetzee and Language — The Dial
A review of Speaking in Tongues.
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I'm extremely happy and excited to be an ~emerging writer~ at the London Library this year! More about the programme and everyone in it here: www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/lat...
The London Library Announces The 2025/26 Emerging Writers Programme Cohort
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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...
Letters from Inside Iran's Evin Prison — The Dial
Five Iranian women, all human rights activists, write of life behind bars.
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For #NationalPigeonDay, some very fancy pigeons courtesy of Emil Schachtzabel's Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1906). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schachtzabel-pigeons
‘Our politicians dream of world-leading provision, with all the social and economic benefits that would bring, but want to achieve this without American levels of private investment or European levels of state spending.’ Ed Kiely on university finances: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ed Kiely · Short Cuts: University Finances
Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one that...
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⚡ 'I feel like I've been waiting for this book my whole life.' Sheila Heti ⚡ 'A masterpiece of biography.' Telegraph ⚡ 'Utterly compelling.' Sunday Times ⚡ 'Tremendous.' The Scotsman ⚡ 'A total joy to read.' Sarah Bakewell The glorious Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade is out today.
In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing. Natela Grigalashvili photographed one pastoral nomadic community over 10 years to explore how people adapt to changing circumstances and create new meaning in today’s world: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The Last Nomads — The Dial
In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing.
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"Can you explain why humanity is a disaster?" Lily Meyer on Mafalda, Argentina's most famous six-year-old: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The Six-Year-Old Who Explained the World — The Dial
Mafalda, the Argentine comic strip heroine, took on war, dictatorship, and her parents.
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