Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and ...

In a world flooded with cheap facsimiles of human art, will we still be able to rely on our own faculties for creation, or ...

Gardner points out that to-date most British lawnmower poems have been written by men but has found examples of women poking fun at mower-obsessed men. In 2002, Grassbox published ‘A Lawnmower Widow’s ...

And in 2007, Andrew Motion, who was poet laureate at the time, based an elegy for his father on memories of him mowing the lawn. Mark Waldron's 2017 poem I Wish I Loved Lawnmowers explored the ...

Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry microgenre," using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence ...

Who killed the duke? Long the most popular hottie in the ballrooms of English historical romance, there’s a rumor running through Romancelandia that his demise is imminent. For decades, historical ...

Grief is often complex and multi-faceted. How we cope with it reflects as much about those we have lost as it does about ourselves. This is a reality that trumpet master Rex Richardson knows all too ...

The poet—friends with everyone from Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot to Diane von Furstenberg and Francis Bacon—talks about his work, his life, and his passion for riding very fast motorcycles ...

I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" on election day, 2020. I didn’t plan it this way. I’d been asked to review the film and I felt that I should read the book beforehand ...

The 2020 movie "Hillbilly Elegy" is a Netflix exclusive. The streaming company won a bidding war in 2019 and paid $45 million for the rights to Vance's life story. Where can I view 'Hillbilly Elegy'?