Modern Zionism: 125 and going strong
From the blog of Tuvia Book at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Tuvia Book at The Times of Israel
From the NS archive: Rudyard Kipling 25 January 1936: The writer of empire in changing times. In this piece, written a week after the death of Rudyard Kipling, Rebecca West, one of the magazine’s most incisive critics, took a hard look at the great fabulist and poet’s career. “Some of his work was gold; and the rest was faery gold,” she writes. Kim was a great work but by no means all his novels succeeded: “… all his life long Kipling was a better poet than he was a prose writer, though an unequal one”. The reason for Kipling’s fame was that his work was “superbly relevant ...