The Museum of Cambridge is housed in the old White Horse Inn on Castle Street, a seventeenth-century building with winding staircases and uneven floors. Opened in 1936, this small social history museum tells the story…
Cats have long been a settled presence in human culture. They turn up in the lines of poets, in the reflections of philosophers, in the offhand jokes of writers who could never have imagined that…
We had the pleasure of speaking with Jodie Stewart — Australian historian, lecturer at the University of Wollongong, and author of The Cats of Australia, published by HarperCollins.
Nestled in the Valli dello Judrio, in the municipality of Prepotto, lies the hamlet of Ciubiz, a place where the boundary between reality and fairy tale begins to blur. Officially, the village has only five…
Cat Stole My Album caught our eye immediately. It wasn’t just the presence of the cats themselves, but the way they are presented. These aren’t your typical “cute” or performative kittens, tamed by a polished…
Cats appear frequently in car commercials: a massive presence that seems to say far more about the attention needs of the automotive industry than about any sudden love for felines.
I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl. I remember the moment well, and it is the…
It’s 1983 when Bill Williams, a young American programmer, decides it’s time for a cat to enter a computer and video game history. At the time, videogames were mostly about spaceships, pixelated heroes and intergalactic…
James Joyce’s Ulysses has a reputation for being a monumental and, at times, intimidating work. Yet, hidden within its dense pages are moments of profound simplicity. One of these can be found in the opening…
When people speak of meeting a cat, they often say: “It was destiny.” Yet perhaps it is more accurate to say: “Meeting this cat changed my destiny.” Few stories illustrate this better than that of…