Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula ...

One of the great joys of life, as many parents can attest, is reading to one’s children. Entered upon with imaginative openness and sensitivity, and provided the book is good, this shared experience ...

A rare watercolor illustration from The Jungle Book, painted by a pair of precocious siblings, is now on display at Rudyard Kipling’s family home, 130 years after the publication of his timeless story ...

The author of one of the best-known children’s books of all time had a house in Vermont that’s open for tours this month. British author Rudyard Kipling wrote his most-famous story, “The Jungle Book,” ...

If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years. By Christopher Benfey. Penguin Press; 256 pages; $28. “KIM”, RUDYARD KIPLING’S tale of an Anglo-Irish boy’s journey through British India (published ...

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 ...

The background of Rudyard Kipling’s book, The Irish Guards in the Great War, is a sad one. His only son John, barely 18 years old, had joined the Guards in the summer of 1915—and died a few weeks ...

How the Just So Stories Were Made. By John Batchelor. Yale University Press; 240 pages; $25 and £18.99 ALREADY, IN HIS mid-30s, the Bombay-born writer Rudyard Kipling had begun to polarise the public.

When: Aug. 29-30, Sept. 3-7, 7 p.m. Ticket prices: Advance, $27 adults, $12 children 15 and younger; day of, $29 adults, $14 children; VIP reserved seating $40; $60 ...