Much as you might fancy yourself a world traveler, chances are that even the lowliest objects by your side at this very moment - a pen, a coffee mug, a saltshaker - have been around the globe, on the ...

304 pp. Metropolitan Books. $26. To gain perspective on the scale and scope on the global sanitation problem, George peppers the book with some by-the-numbers facts. The most expensive toilet ever ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In her book The Big Necessity, British writer Rose George takes a long, hard look at ...

Rose George wants to start a conversation about human excrement, said David Biello in Scientific American. “I have no particular fascination with the substance itself. I don’t like it any more than ...

While working as an editor and writer at COLORS Magazine, Rose George was assigned to work on Cacas, a coffee table book featuring photographs of animal and human feces, for which “caca” is slang.

Rose George is a journalist and author of Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood (Metropolitan Books, 2018). She’s based in Leeds, England. In this excerpt from ...