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 ...
It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. —George Orwell, 1942 My childhood home did not boast many literary ...
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 ...
University of Manchester students took matters into their own hands and painted over a mural of a 1895 poem by Rudyard Kipling because they deemed him as racist, reports The Guardian. The poem titled, ...
Searching through Kipling family papers, the archive of a former head of the cruise-ship company Cunard Line, and inside a house in Manhattan, Pomona College professor emeritus Thomas Pinney found ...