This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...
Max Ebel fled his home in Nazi Germany after he was assaulted for refusing to join the Hitler Youth. Susumu Shimizu, a Japanese immigrant in Peru, helped run a successful family business in Lima.
In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...