The Year of the Female Creep

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A new literary character has logged on. It’s unclear how long she’s been here; her arrival itself went unnoticed. Instead of speaking, she lurks. Her profile picture is the default “girl”…

The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Four years ago, on the threshold of a critical election year that would decide whether Donald Trump won another term in the White House, I asked a German friend, Constanze Stelzenmüller,…

The Year of the Orca

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the night of May 4th, the skipper Werner Schaufelberger was sailing the Swiss yacht Champagne toward a Spanish port town on the Strait of Gibraltar when he heard a loud…