LatestWanda Gág's 1928 picture book begins with a wish for one cat and grows into a fable about choosing, comparison and the care an individual needs.
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Books & ReadingAn anonymous medieval scholar compares his work with his cat's hunting. Pangur Bán still feels familiar because it…
Books & ReadingExplore La Chatte and On Cats through affection, observation and the different promises made by fiction and recollection.
Books & ReadingThe Cheshire Cat’s grin predates Wonderland. The manuscript and the novel show how Carroll transformed an expression into…
Books & ReadingPoe’s The Black Cat explained: the 1843 story, its unreliable narrator, guilt, alcohol, real cats and the films…
Books & ReadingCats in Japanese literature, from Soseki’s nameless narrator and Tanizaki’s Lily to Murakami’s missing cats and quieter modern…
Books & ReadingHow Eliot’s cat poems grew from letters into a book, a radio programme, and Cats: the musical, with…
Books & ReadingMeet Bulgakov's Behemoth, the unruly cat of The Master and Margarita, and trace the novel's censorship, restored passages,…
Books & ReadingHow epistolary novels tell stories through letters and other documents, with examples from Dracula, The Color Purple and…
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