WRITER & HISTORIAN
This piece follows on from my other post about Kipling here. Both first appeared as part of Norman Geras' Writer's Choice feature on his blog. If we are ever to understand and appreciate Kipling’s art, we have to discard all our preconceptions about him and his world view. It is surprising how hard many critics... Continue Reading →
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Norman Geras had been kind enough to invite my to contribute a post to his Normblog series, Writer's Choice. In the end, I contributed a lengthy piece about Kipling that we agreed should be split into two. I am now reposting them on my blog. The first of... Continue Reading →
As mentioned last week, Norman Geras was kind enough not only to invite me to contribute to the Writer's Choice feature on his website, but also to allow me to split my contribution over two weeks. My first piece, on Rudyard Kipling and The Jungle Book, can be read here. The second piece, posted today... Continue Reading →
I was hugely flattered to be asked by Norman Geras to contribute a piece on a favoured book to his Writer's Choice series. After much indecision - which may well end up reflected in another post here at some point - I finally chose Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, and you can read the resulting... Continue Reading →
Mathew Lyons 