Benfey Chris

Is Rudyard Kipling an American? Let’s start with the obvious fact about Kipling: he is out of fashion these days.About the only thing most people know about him is the title of one of his poems.  Yeah, you know which poem.  Nobody actually even bothers to read the poem any more. Everyone just knows: Kipling is bad, very bad. I have spent years trying to convince people that Kipling is well worth reading. I have spent years trying to convince people that Kipling is not at all what they … [Read more...] about Kipling the American Author