Cheri Lucas Rowlands

The benefits of human gut microbiota are well-known; for example, fecal microbiota transplants have shown to be effective treatments for C. diff . (Lina

In 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, Ed Park discovered an unpublished manuscript at home—his memoir, Three Tenses . As he and his family isolated

In this essay for The Paris Review , Simon Wu recounts his experiences pining after, and eventually buying, six designer handbags: some real, some real but used, and one fake.

This deeply researched and thoughtful read by Maxwell Neely-Cohen, a fellow at the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, explores the past, present, and future of long-term data storage. “If you want to store something for 100 years, what are the best methods for ensuring its survival?” he asks. Neely-Cohen's sweeping examination of storage types covers hard drives, removable media like VHS tapes and DVDs, the cloud, and even physical surfaces like rocks and walls. The piece also interrogates whether decentralization is the right direction, and what systems, ultimately, will inspire care, maintenance, and the preservation of human civilization's culture and history in the decades and centuries to come.

In this sharp, contemplative essay, Dylan Levi King—who has lived in Tokyo for nearly a decade—reflects on the image of the city that foreigners

Before Europeans settled in the region, an estimated five billion prairie dogs lived across the West, from Canada to Mexico.

Ariel Sabar takes us on a wild ride, telling the story of a crew of childhood friends from northeastern Pennsylvania who pulled off more than 1,500

Despite product recalls, questionable business practices, reports of workplace misconduct, and greenwashing, Trader Joe's remains one of America's favorite supermarkets.

So many stories have been published in the last few weeks about the Palisades Fire, the wildfire burning in Los Angeles County that has destroyed

In this immigration feature for The Local , Fatima Syed reports on the growing number of asylum seekers landing in Peel, a regional municipality in