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A Digital Archive Is Still Adding Full Texts Of Kipling’s Lahore Journalism And I Have Fallen Completely Down That Rabbit Hole This Week

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A Digital Archive Is Still Adding Full Texts Of Kipling’s Lahore Journalism And I Have Fallen Completely Down That Rabbit Hole This Week – A diary entry on a living scholarly archive and rediscovering Kipling’s earliest, least polished work

A Postcolonial Translator Rewrote Kipling Into Arabic Specifically To Push Back Against His Own Framing And I Think That Is Genuinely Brilliant

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A Postcolonial Translator Rewrote Kipling Into Arabic Specifically To Push Back Against His Own Framing And I Think That Is Genuinely Brilliant – A diary entry on resistant translation and using an author’s own words against his original intent

Kipling’s Own Poem Remained Britain’s Favourite For An Entire Century And I Keep Turning Over What That Popularity Actually Reveals

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Kipling’s Own Poem Remained Britain’s Favourite For An Entire Century And I Keep Turning Over What That Popularity Actually Reveals – A diary entry on cultural memory, contested legacies, and a poem that refuses to be simply, comfortably filed away

The Kipling Society Still Runs A Members Only Research Library And I Spent An Afternoon Wondering What That Kind Of Institution Owes The Public

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The Kipling Society Still Runs A Members Only Research Library And I Spent An Afternoon Wondering What That Kind Of Institution Owes The Public – A diary entry on literary societies, gatekept archives, and access to contested cultural material

A Scholar Is Writing Her Entire Doctorate On Kipling And Maugham Side By Side And I Think That Comparison Deserves Far More Attention Than It Gets

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A Scholar Is Writing Her Entire Doctorate On Kipling And Maugham Side By Side And I Think That Comparison Deserves Far More Attention Than It Gets – A diary entry on comparative colonial literature and an underexplored pairing worth serious study