As the year comes to an end — a low, dishonest year, grinding down to its low, dishonest end — we need our valediction: our parting words, our taking leave. Maybe it need be nothing more than a ...

Rudyard Kipling, a difficult, opaque and even modernist author, has never shaken off the "imperialist" tag. His poem "Recessional" is often said to be an exact articulation of a mood in late ...

Next time you're playing literary parlor games, try this question: What author has had the most influence on the 20th century? Not influence as in the ability to inspire imitative neurotics or gossipy ...

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 ...

22:16, Tue, Nov 10, 2020 Updated: 22:16, Tue, Nov 10, 2020 Remembrance Day celebrates the Allied signing of the armistice in 1918, conclusively ending World War I. People have celebrated the occasion ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Though David Gilmour's book has the form of a biography, it does not concern itself with ...

A new volume of poetry from the hand of a man of recognized power is like a message brought from a battlefield. One's chief interest is in learning how the battle is going. Whether the messenger ...

The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

'Take up the White Man's burden," Rudyard Kipling implored the Americans in 1899 as they began ruling the Philippines, hoping that they would better the lot of the inhabitants, whom he characterised ...