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Photo by Pema G. Lama on Unsplash Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year. If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you, please make a contribution today . In the context of publishing, the term “cozy” can be a bit hard to pin down, though it’s gained momentum in numerous genres, including mysteries and fantasy . Cozy novels are typically low-stakes, but that doesn’t mean they’re not free from conflict, emotion, and heavy ideas. Instead, think of a cozy read as a respite from this increasingly stressful world—and the below Japanese books are just that. These pages are filled with steaming bowls of ramen, stories on connection and community, and lots (like, lots) of fluffy cats to solicit warm and fuzzy feelings. We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida, Translated by E. Madison Shimoda Somewhere in Kyoto, between a confusing intersection of streets and down a shabby alley, lies the Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. The space is small, the staff minimal, and those who find themselves checking in leave with a peculiar prescription: a cat. We’ll Prescribe You a Cat is a charming collection of stories about the clinic’s patients: a young businessman whose corporate job drives him to despair, a middle-age father who feels like an outsider, and a perfectionist who sees flaws everywhere but within herself, to name a few. And though their tales largely stand alone, more and more is revealed about the mysterious clinic with each successive story. The Traveling Cat Chronicl es by Hiro Arikawa, Translated by Philip Gabriel This tender novel is partially told from the POV of Nana, a sassy white and tabby cat who’s adopted from the streets by Saturo, a young business man. But when Saturo decides he can no longer care for Nana, the two travel across Japan to visit Saturo’s old friends and find […]
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This week’s story, “ Between the Shadow and the Soul ,” is about a fifty-year-old woman named Eliza who has
The British realist director Mike Leigh loves the term “character actor,” which he uses often and with zeal. To him,
