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…
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.
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…
Elegant and mysterious creatures take shape from Lecce limestone, at once trapped and freed. Biography Born in Lecce in 1980, Andrea Guido is a self-taught artisan and sculptor. From an early age, he developed a…
Fierce, mysterious, and gloriously unclassifiable — Leonor Fini (1907–1996) wasn’t just an artist who loved cats. She lived like one. Born in Buenos Aires and raised in Trieste, Fini grew up among sea winds, cultural…