John Milton

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The subtle thief of youth

Failure
The John Milton drinking game.
By KARL STEVENS | January 31, 2012

Red Sox Nation, meet your new existential dread

Balls, pucks, and monster trucks
For my entire life, I have esteemed the Red Sox above all other teams.
By RICK WORMWOOD | October 07, 2010

Iannucci and the future of political comedy
After laughing at the benighted morals and intelligence and the mordant wit of the reprehensible politicos of In the Loop , I had to ask myself, why now? Wouldn't this film have made more of an impact, both politically and commercially, if it had been made, say, before the 2004 American presidential election?
By PETER KEOUGH | July 23, 2009

Black Gold digs the crude

Oiled up
If the poet John Milton were with us today and casting about for a theme epic enough to engage his imagination, I am confident that he would settle on oil .
By JAMES PARKER | June 10, 2008

Reading is fundamental

Last-minute items to toss under the tree and more
Some of the books I enjoyed most this year were written for an audience more than 10 years my junior.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | December 12, 2007

Mutiny in Heaven

Philip Pullman ’ s fantasy novels are condemned as a crash course in militant atheism. But one BU professor thinks otherwise.
It is a truth now well established that the idea for a series of books about a schoolboy wizard did not , in fact, originate with its author, J.K. Rowling (as she has naively claimed), but was piped up red-hot and stinking from Below.
By JAMES PARKER | December 06, 2007

Us, writ large

Mark Morris’s L’Allegro
Mark Morris’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato is a dance as big as its name, as big as its illustrious associates and enablers, George Frideric Handel, John Milton, William Blake, and a contemporary galaxy of dancers, musicians, and designers.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | January 24, 2006