The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun. By Brian Seibert Christopher Benfey’s “If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...

Elgar’s flag-waving nautical song-cycle The Fringes of the Fleet was performed to packed houses up and down the country in 1917, then sank virtually without trace for the next 90 years. As the work ...

Last Day: 49 members needed! Every gift before midnight sends 2 books to Vermont children and powers local journalism. (“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.) [V]ermont has ...

Posterity, it appears, still can't quite make up its mind about Rudyard Kipling. As Christopher Hitchens reminded us in his essay in the June 2002 Atlantic, "A Man of Permanent Contradictions," few ...

Last year, in the company of a nurse, a priest, and several homeless men and women from the streets of Boston, I went on a pilgrimage. A short odyssey of the soul: We walked out of the city for 60 ...

Letters dating back to 1915 have been discovered that show author Rudyard Kipling appealing for information about his son, who went missing on the Western Front during World War One. The writer and ...

Letters sent by author Rudyard Kipling appealing for information about his son, who went missing on the Western Front during World War One, have sold for more than £1,200 at auction. The letters date ...