What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost is a book about the extraordinary influence of John Milton’s epic poem on the politics of the modern age.

It has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Observer, The New Statesman, The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Times, The Chicago Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Week, The Oldie, and The Economist.

I’ve given interviews about it to The Brooklyn Institute of Social Research, The Spectator, The Socialist Worker, Large Hearted Boy, Fieldzine, The London Magazine, Good Intentions, Bungacast, and the Northeastern Global News.

It was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, The Guardian’s Book of the Day (twice), and appeared on the Best Books of 2024 lists for The Financial Times, The Independent, The Big Issue, and Counterfire.

You can find the UK edition here and the US edition here.

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“A remarkable feat of distillation and elucidation…”

—Joe Moshenska, The Observer