Rebecca van Laer

REVIEW: Cat by Rebecca van Laer | Hippocampus Magazine "...if you are... a cat lover to a mere cat appreciator, you will find what I did in this book: pure delight." -- from our review of Cat by Rebecca van Laer.

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Rae Pagliarulo reviews Cat by Rebecca van Laer, part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-cat-by-rebecca-van-laer/

Everything is Unnatural These Days In an interview with author Rebecca van Laer below, editor Cheryl Rivera asks what you’ve all been wondering: are pets slaves?

In this @readlux.bsky.social interview, Rebecca van Laer explored people’s relationships with their pets.

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great cat

Thank you Eileen!!!

Author Rebecca van Laer, seated in a leather chair, wearing a black dress covered with printed drawings of kittens, holding her book CAT (a black book with a white cat on the cover)

It's national cat day! I know the perfect way to celebrate....

www.bloomsbury.com/us/cat-97987...

Proof!!! Of fame!!!

Telling our new veterinarian "just so you know you're treating a celebrity"

Animal Memoirs Gone Wild - Orion Magazine What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature

What would motivate you more to change your behaviors to save wildlife: a book about elephants, a book about the wild fauna in your own backyard, or a book about your pet? Would any? Rebecca van Laer sifts through the noise.

Everything is Unnatural These Days In an interview with author Rebecca van Laer below, editor Cheryl Rivera asks what you’ve all been wondering: are pets slaves?

Today I'm interviewed in Lux Magazine newsletter, wherein Cheryl Rivera and I discuss whether pets are slaves, animal consciousness, and whether unconditional love exists. (These are all topics of CAT btw!!!!)

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awwww thank you suzy!!

CAT book by Rebecca van Laer

Been looking forward to this one! by @rebeccavl.bsky.social whose writing I fell in love with in her Long Day Press book How to Adjust to the Dark

Another little excerpt of CAT, out now from Bloomsbury 🐱

Hand holding up a copy of Rebecca van Laer's book 'Cat' in front of foliage seen through a window.

Shelf containing the Bloomsbury Object Lessons series, all with black spines and colourful titles. Rebecca van Laer's CAT is facing out to the camera.

Rebecca van Laer's CAT held in front of a triple window facing trees from above. The book cover shoes a pensive green eyed white cat.

Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!!

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What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves One fantasy that comes up again and again: I wish cats ruled the world.  When we imagine this alternate reality, all our favorite projections blur together in a vague impression of what might be—a …

“I do not think love comes easily to me—love for people, that is. For cats, who have been accused of loving back too little or not at all, it is a different story.” Rebecca van Laer on what humans can learn from our relationships with cats.

Animal Memoirs Gone Wild What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature

Can memoirs about native and common wildlife spark more action and awe than the stories of the “charismatic megafauna” that so often act as poster children for the conservation movement? Rebecca van Laer investigates the new trend in publishing.

I've become the thing I hate most...someone bad at replying to email

How do you get your dad to stop sending you AI art

I once wrote a story about a girl and her cat and weeks later realized it was Miette fan fiction

A24 launching an AI division

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#FilmSky #AISlop #a24

It’s not in any interview that has been published online. A simple google search reveals this.

A white cat and a black cat sitting on a quilt looking out a half-open window

Why does it feel like fall!!!

Found out my publisher hired my preferred audiobook narrator by Googling myself and finding a pre-order link at an Italian bookstore. This is how it's supposed to work, right?

So how often does PT make everyone ELSE cry

Hand-sold my book to my gynecologist. That is commitment 🐱

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The Trump administration’s ‘MAHA Report’ cites nonexistent scientific studies There's new evidence that the White House's “The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again” relied in part on scientific research that doesn't exist.

In case this isn’t obvious: In a healthy political system, if officials released a hyped report on health policy, and the document relied on scientific sources that didn’t exist, those officials would be expected to resign — quickly. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Hi Tripp, I'm a reporter with the Guardian US, based in New York. I hope this finds you well. I'm reaching out about your most recent article and its inclusion of the claim, "Young Chinese women have small fingers." What is the source of this information? The full sentence attributes the claim that such small fingers make them "nimble" and therefore "valuable" to iPhone manufacturing to unnamed "supply chain experts", but it's unclear whether those same experts are the source of the claim that young Chinese women have small fingers in the first place. Are they? How do they know? Is there a study you can cite? And are we talking length? Circumference? Is it question of muscle strength? Or bone density? What is the normative range for finger size, to what extent do young Chinese women fall outside of it, and how do you - or your sources - know this?

Incidentally, how are you defining "Chinese" in this sentence? As I'm sure you and your supply chain experts know, China is a large country with dozens of ethnic minorities. It is hard to imagine that hand size is a trait linked to national identity, but the lack of specificity leaves the question open. Did hand size among Han Chinese living in Taiwan vs the PRC diverge after the civil war? Could this be a function of political economy rather than a genetic trait? So many questions. Relatedly, how are you defining "young"? Do Chinese women's fingers grow as they age? Or is size not actually the meaningful characteristic? It's hard to tell from the information you provided! I ask all these questions because unless you have answers to them, I am afraid that you may have portrayed racist pseudoscience as if it were fact in an article for the New York Times. If that wasn't your intent, I hope you will reflect upon the long history of certain forces using race science claims to attribute suitability for certain types of labor to certain types of people, and amend your article. Best, Julia Wong

welp I sent an email

Tried to reduce my em-dash usage; realized colons and semicolons are just as frequent 😅

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Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.

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