In “Catland,” Kathryn Hughes has a theory about our obsession with our feline friends — and one cat lover in particular. By Leah Reich Leah Reich writes about tech and culture. She lives with Lumpy, ...
From pests to pampered pets … how Victorian artist Louis Wain ushered in the age of the cat ‘Catland”, as Kathryn Hughes describes it, is two things. One is the imaginary universe of Louis Wain’s ...
In a daily video barrage, cats ride around on robot vacuum cleaners, snuggle up with babies and leap away in hilarious alarm when they come upon a cucumber. Millions of people beguile the hours fondly ...
In mid-nineteenth-century London, which had a population upward of two million people, the journalist and social researcher Henry Mayhew set out to survey the lives of the working and nonworking poor.