Forward Into Foreignness (opens in new tab)

As soon as I started reading Joseph O’Neill’s “Forward Into Foreignness” (called “Polyglotism” in the paper version of the issue of the New Yorker I was reading; archived), I knew I was going to post it: In the nineteen-sixties, my father, a Corkman, was employed by Chicago Bridge & Iron, an American corporation that built […]