Great stuff on Narwhals from R.Mac Jones: “Julia Elliott’s stories remind me of narwhals. That’s how I have come to think of them since I heard a parent describe a narwhal to a four-year-old: “A whale crossed with a unicorn.” It’s good shorthand. Narwhals are toothed whales. Whales are common on posters in school hallways, warning about the extinction of aquatic life on the planet. Unicorns are the default “U” in most animal alphabet books I come across (note: the uromastix and the uakari are both harder to draw than the unicorn and not recognized by spellcheck).”