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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fatima Abid was among elected student leaders who chose to replace Rudyard Kipling's work with a Maya Angelou poem Students have defaced a mural featuring Rudyard Kipling's If in a stand against his ...

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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 ...

When the first World War broke out in August 1914, Rudyard Kipling felt horribly vindicated. The poet of Empire believed Britain's army was pitifully small for the continental war he had warned was ...

Mumbai: One's childhood days would have rarely skipped the chapters from The Jungle Book. The author of this popular book, ...