Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger.

The flagship angel fantasy novel, Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is an undisputed classic. Inspired by the OG ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it ‘longer than it is.’ But ‘Paradise Lost’ ...

Merve Emre reviews “What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost,” by the British academic Orlando Reade, which traces John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers ...

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost By Orlando Reade Astra House 272 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

Thomas Duncan, a down & out ex-Harvard man, has written a rags-to-riches story, and as a result is about to enjoy a rags-to-riches life himself. His novel is the Book-of-the-Month Club selection ...

Circe's DCU debut in Creature Commandos has everyone talking about the Amazons and Themyscira, but what are we hoping to see in DC Studios' planned Paradise Lost TV series? You can find our ...

Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the four great epic works of the Western world, vying with Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Inferno, and Goethe’s Faust for the supremacy. Only these four in ...

Radical struggles and revolution: The book unearthing the subversive history of Paradise Lost Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a ...

His book has two components. One is a summary of the story told in Paradise Lost, the other is the story of its reception and reimagining. Milton’s poem switches from Hell to Heaven, from flashback to ...

On first reading “Paradise Lost” by Michael Auslin On reading John Milton’s epic for the first time. n the middle of my journey, I picked up Paradise Lost. I did so out of embarrassment, a dutiful ...