There's a Monster in the Lake: The World as a Fantastical Place

A witty meditation revealing what our obsession with monsters says about wonder, reality, and narrative itself

What does the Loch Ness Monster tell us about belief, tourism, and the stories we need to survive? In this formally innovative essay, award-winning Spanish writer Laura Fernández travels to the Scottish Highlands to investigate the legend of Nessie and develops a perspective on humanity’s perpetual and sometimes destructive need to “discover.” From the 1933 sighting that launched a ...