“A lifelong and morbid fear of snakes held me captive—until something much scarier raised its ugly head.”
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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Walmart Wants to Be Something for Everyone in a Divided America
“The world’s largest retailer has built an Apple-esque corporate campus in Bentonville, is selling Gucci online, and is playing nice with Trump. Will any of it work?”
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The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan
“This was what made me walk 100 miles. Over and over again, Gorton found ways to make itself interesting.”
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Shooting an Elephant in Botswana
“Trophy hunting is uncomfortable for some in the West but a lifeline for many locals.”
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Solastalgia
“Pleasant memories of places past: that’s nostalgia. But what do you call the grief that comes when the modern world leaves nary a trace of the place that raised you?”
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The Teacher in Room 1214
“When a gunman killed two of her students, Ivy Schamis was the only adult in the room. Her journey through guilt and healing sheds light on the impossible role of American teachers.”
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The Women Who Made America’s Microchips and the Children Who Paid for It
“America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects.”
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Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’
“A brutal regime hid hundreds of people’s remains. Can new forensic science help find them—and regain public trust?”
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Tracking the Pacific Drug Highway
“How Latin American cartels are reshaping the narcotics trade across the world’s largest ocean.”