Letters dating back to 1915 have been discovered that show author Rudyard Kipling appealing for information about his son, who went missing on the Western Front during World War One. The writer and ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is 80 years since the death of Rudyard Kipling. The author of The Jungle Book and If died without finding out what had happened to his son, who disappeared during World War One. Now researchers ...

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 ...

STUDENTS at Manchester University have painted over a wall mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”, replacing it with “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. The incident took place in the University’s Student ...

What makes fiction writers turn to fiction? Other forms of prose storytelling—essays, memoir, journalism—offer undeniable advantages, after all: immediate high stakes, flesh-and-blood characters who ...

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 ...

It is 80 years since the death of Rudyard Kipling. The author of The Jungle Book and If died without finding out what had happened to his son, who disappeared during World War One. Now researchers ...