EAST RUTHERFORD --Not your typical training camp discussion. Giants head coach Ben McAdoo said he read the poem "If" by poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling to his players on Thursday as they gear up for ...

Ben McAdoo is always trying to find ways to inspire his players, and this time he used two markedly different stories to make his point. He read the famous Rudyard Kipling poem, “If,” to reach the ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...

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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 ...

University of Manchester students took matters into their own hands and painted over a mural of a 1895 poem by Rudyard Kipling because they deemed him as racist, reports The Guardian. The poem titled, ...

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“After you have read Kipling fifty or seventy-five best stories you realize that few men have written this many stories of this much merit, and that very few have written more or better stories.” — ...

Sarah Lonsdale is the author of The Journalist in British Fiction and Film, Bloomsbury, 2016. Sixteen-year-old Rudyard Kipling returned to India after a miserable childhood, and slightly less ...