Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula ...

Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling was "a jingo imperialist … morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting". Frank O'Connor thought him "a damned liar"; Craig Raine has bemoaned his "grating air ...

Sarah Lonsdale is the author of The Journalist in British Fiction and Film, Bloomsbury, 2016. Sixteen-year-old Rudyard Kipling returned to India after a miserable childhood, and slightly less ...

Poetry written by Rudyard Kipling is to be read at his former estate in Burwash, East Sussex Poetry written by Rudyard Kipling is to be read in the gardens of his former estate in East Sussex. The ...

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 ...

A lucky buyer could soon own the home of famed British poet and Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling after his two-bedroom London flat went on sale for £2.49 million. Kipling is said to have written his ...

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1919. 8vo, xiv+783 pp. $5.00. WHEN Ben Jonson in 1616 collected and printed what he did not hesitate to call his ‘Works,’ he placed the cap-sheaf on ...