I n a recent skirmish in the current war on woke, John Milton’s Paradise Lost was caught in the crossfire. In December 2024, the scholar Orlando Reade’s book on the “revolutionary afterlife” of Milton ...

News that Hollywood is to make the first feature film of Milton’s epic “Paradise Lost” fills me with mixed feelings: eager anticipation and foreboding. If the last such blockbuster, “Troy,” is ...

It’s John Milton’s time now. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and afterward, Shakespeare was frequently invoked to help make sense of the Trump phenomenon. After Trump lost the 2020 ...

A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages. By Ed Simon Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English ...

(RNS) — In its effort to comply with a new state rule in Florida that bans sexual content in books in public schools, one Florida county last month decided to err on the side of caution and require ...

How will Hurricane Milton be remembered? It's not an easy question to answer, so soon after the storm roared across Florida, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. On Thursday, Floridians began ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Mr. Jacobs, a literary critic and professor at Baylor, has written a “biography” of “Paradise Lost”: a concise, lively and ...