Originally published on McSweeney's, Philip Graham's dispatches from Lisbon -- where he spent a year with his wife and daughter -- explore the meeting of self and city with alert, subtle attention.
February 10: The Dreadnought Hoax, a practical joke at the British Navy's expense, occurred on this day in 1910. Among the young Bloomsbury conspirators was Virginia Woolf (then Virginia Stephen) and, though she played only a minor…
Once held close to the chest and protected by well-understood laws, the valuable information about our lives that we blithely disclose with our every keystroke has the potential…
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