Gary Shteyngart on the rodent winning hearts. Plus: putting a skeptic in charge of science; Michael Crichton’s lessons in ...

A little while back, I met a capybara, the world’s largest rodent, for a coffee-and-carrot date at a café in Tokyo. This has become a ritual when I visit the city. I sat on a couch next to ...

a capybara and a lemur, learns about more than mere survival. Humans are conspicuously absent in the nature-rich, post-civilization backdrop that director and co-writer Gints Zilbalodis has ...