Biography: Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling By Charles Allen Little, Brown, 426pp. £20No English writer has been more ardently idolised and vehemently denounced than Rudyard ...
Every writer has his political aspect, but few merit a political biography. Rudyard Kipling, as David Gilmour demonstrates in The Long Recessional, is one of the ones who do. Not only did Kipling's ...
The author’s acclaimed biographer answered your questions about Kipling and his classic novel Kim, tackling everything from Kipling’s attitudes to the Raj, to whether Kim is the first spy novel Sadly, ...
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling David Gilmour John Murray £22.50, pp362 The point about Kipling is that - chronologically, instinctively - he was a journalist first. Kipling ...
THE LONG RECESSIONAL: THE IMPERIAL LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING By David Gilmour Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 351 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY SUDIP BOSE Whatever one thinks of Rudyard Kipling’s politics ...
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 ...
The Samurai Come to Dallas, Cloisonné, a Spiny Lobster, and a Sake Fountain in Tow Back in the Dark Ages I used to ponder the name “Kipling” twice a day whilst sitting in the little tin chapel of my ...
“Do you think Kipling will live?” asks a character at the end of the 1945 Broadway play Dream Girl. Rudyard Kipling had died only nine years earlier, and the character was wondering if his work would ...
Posterity, it appears, still can't quite make up its mind about Rudyard Kipling. As Christopher Hitchens reminds us in his essay in the June Atlantic, "A Man of Permanent Contradictions," few British ...
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