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 ...

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.

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 ...