Glories of the Gilded Age, at Chicago’s Driehaus Museum This Halloween, Treat Yourself to a Neglected Horror Masterpiece Back in the Dark Ages I used to ponder the name “Kipling” twice a day whilst ...

Born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a museum director and author and illustrator. This was at the height of the "British Raj", so he was brought up by ...

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 ...

Engaging with the difficult histories behind objects has deepened, not dampened, my experiences at cultural institutions—and the fact it is different for everyone is a good thing.

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 ...

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 ...