Sosuke Natsukawa’s ‘The Cat Who Saved Books’ follows a quiet boy named Rintario who embarks on a journey of healing with a ...

Whether you are a longtime fan of Japanese literature or just dipping your toes into it, this collection of novels will help ...

Several cat-themed Japanese healing novels have become breakout hits in translation, like “The Cat Who Saved Books,” Sosuke Natsukawa’s novel about a talking cat who rescues unwanted and ...

While life can’t be all Miyazaki-brand fantastical all the time, these 10 fantasy books that feel like Ghibli movies will help spread some movie magic into your literary life – since I’m ...

Japanese cat fiction is its own mini-genre; in the past few years, we've seen Sosuke Notsukawa's "The Cat Who Saved Books," Genki Kawamura's "If Cats Disappeared from this World" ...

First published in 1966, “The Cat Who Could Read Backwards” starts off the series and introduces readers to newspaper man Jim Qwilleran and Siamese cat Kao K'o-Kung, or Koko for short.

Sosuke Natsukawa’s ‘The Cat Who Saved Books’ follows a quiet boy named Rintario who embarks on a journey of healing with a talking car after his grandfather’s death. This book is a gentle, magical ...