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 ...

MAUGHAM’S CHOICE OF KIPLING’S BEST (324 pp.)—Doubleday ($3.95). “The star of the hour,” said Henry James in 1890, when Rudyard Kipling was only 24. “Too clever to live,” said Robert Louis Stevenson.

Rudyard Kipling returned to India to take up a job with an influential paper of the time, The Civil and Military Gazette, which was published from Lahore. He had been interviewed while still in ...

Letters written by Rudyard Kipling pleading for information about his son, who was reported missing in the First World War, have been found. These letters reveal the desperation of the celebrated ...