and an aged Tibetan lama on a quest to find the legendary “River of the Arrow” so that he can free himself from Saṃsāra, the cyclical wheel of life. Kim becomes the lama’s disciple and ...

There is a fine antidote to all manner of morbidness in the brilliant pages of Kim. Mr. Kipling's last work is ... as chela or disciple—to a saintly old lama from Thibet, "bound to the Wheel ...

Sometimes, those who claim to be part of the deep state ascribe to themselves a larger-than-life role in state affairs—for ...