In his “biography” of Paradise Lost, which is part of Princeton University Press’s excellent Lives of Great Religious Books series, Alan Jacobs traces Johnson’s and others’ responses to Milton and his ...

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 ...

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 ...