This essay, on John Milton, Phillip Pullman and the ambiguities of stories, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on strikes in France.) It was published on 29 December 2019, under the headline ‘From Milton to Pullman, the quest for truth is riddled with ambiguity’. ‘A poem is not a lecture; a story is not an argument. The way poems and stories work on our minds is not by logic, but by their capacity to […]

Categories: Atheism & Religion, Culture & Books, Human • Tags: areopagitica, blake, christianity, his dark materials, human nature, john milton, paradise lost, philip pullman, religion, the fall