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 ...

One of the great joys of life, as many parents can attest, is reading to one’s children. Entered upon with imaginative openness and sensitivity, and provided the book is good, this shared experience ...

What still stands out about the Just So Stories is Rudyard Kipling’s extraordinary use of language. Audiobooks, as I’ve written before, are a godsend for long car rides, boring days, or house-cleaning ...

How fortunate we are! After eighty-five years of assorted errors and miseries, the human race has emerged into sunlit uplands. There is no major war, nor any visible prospect of any. Utopian socialism ...

THE volume called Traffics and Discoveries, published in 1904, marks the complete metamorphosis of Kipling. 1 The collection that preceded it, The Day’s Work, though these tendencies had already begun ...

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 ...

How the whale got his throat --How the camel got his hump -- How the rhinoceros got his skin --Jungle book 101 Kipling, Rudyard: How the Whale got his Throat 102 Kipling, Rudyard: How the Camel got ...