Some years ago a philosopher told me that he was teaching his cat to be a vegan. The idea that such a super-carnivore could be persuaded to adopt a meat-free diet struck me as so absurd that I could ...

I am not a cat person. That said, long before her 20th birthday, Zena won me over. When Greer, our older daughter, was 7, she picked a little calico from a host of kittens at a shelter event in ...

Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life, by John Gray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 128 pages, $24) Parents sometimes say that nothing gives you more insight into the natural differences between ...

Former academic Gray (Straw Dogs) takes an unconventional, not entirely successful, feline-focused work to exploring a wide array of philosophical concepts, from morality to death and the afterlife.

An uncertain fate awaits the most bracing and contrarian writers: Will the insights they offer still come across as stingingly original if the disillusion they so often recommend becomes commonplace?

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Cats are the vessels for John Gray’s austere worldview in his new book, “Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life.” The title may make it sound like a stocking filler, unexpected from a ...