I expected Diane Lovejoy's Montrose home to be teeming with cats. Her new memoir "Cat Lady Chronicles" (Officina Libraria, 164 pp., $21.99), tells the story of how she came to adopt 10 of them, ...

Move aside man’s best friend. There’s a new four-legged BFF in town and he’s decidedly feline. At least, that’s according to The Travelling Cat Chronicles — a title that’s bound to be in the running ...

When I first started The Travelling Cat Chronicles — by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel--I was admittedly skeptical. I am a cat lover, obsessed with my own kitties as well as the myriad cat ...

Whenever I’m reading a hardcover cat-related book in public–especially one featuring a cat who talks–I always remove the dust jacket. Wouldn’t want anyone to think I’m one of those ladies. While the ...

Koichiro Miki’s 'The Travelling Cat Chronicles' ('Tabineko ripoto'), bowing at the Tokyo International Film Festival before its release in Japan, revolves around the final journeys undertaken by a cat ...

What do Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Richard Adams' Watership Down and Paul Auster's Timbuktu all have in common? They are each narrated by or feature animals as their central characters. (Giant ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It is a truth (that ought to be) universally acknowledged that dogs are better than cats in almost every conceivable ...