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 ...
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 ...
Was he an aggressive, unapologetic, booming colonialist or a deeply troubled, increasingly pessimistic anti-imperialist? An advocate of martial values and stout public-school patriotism, or a hater of ...