When David Gilmour's excellent book about Kipling's imperial politics, The Long Recessional, came out a few months ago, I expressed mild astonishment that a sympathetic book on so previously taboo a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...