The Washington Post has named James McAuley a contributing columnist to its Global Opinions section.McAuley has reported for The Washington Post since 2016, and has also written for the New York Review of Books. He holds a PhD in French history from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
He is the author of “The House of Fragile Things,” a forthcoming book exploring the role of art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews before World War II. He is currently at work on a biography of Edmond de Rothschild and the early Zionist movement.
