Rudyard Kipling's works are a window to the past, giving readers a glimpse into the history and culture of his time ...

The Disney Company has a long and storied history in the film industry. One of their most popular movies is The Jungle Book. This movie is based on the novel of the same name by Rudyard Kipling ...

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai) during the first decade of the British Raj, the English novelist and poet has come to embody the colonial enterprise, though his love of India wends through many of his ...

My favorite Disney movie is The Jungle Book, which, in conjunction with [Rudyard] Kipling’s stories, obviously inspired me (Hollow Kingdom was once described by an editor as “Kipling, if he were ...

Director and playwright Mary Zimmerman has been hard at work adapting The Jungle Book for the stage at the Goodman Theatre (June 21 to August 4). She's already shared how she went about creating the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.