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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: An humble and a contrite heart.

'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 ...

Forecast: Harry Ricketts's biography came out just two years ago (and is now out in paperback), but some review coverage should give an initial push to Gilmour.