In 2016, my cousin, who is more like an older brother to me, released a book called “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” “Hillbilly Elegy” made the No. 1 spot on the New York ...

Hillbilly Elegy, director Ron Howard’s Netflix-bound next film, makes its Oscar aspirations quite clear upon the release of its first trailer. Indeed, we can already see how an impressive cast ...

It already took some Olympian logic-gymnastics to accept real-estate-mogul-turned-game-show-host Donald Trump as the populist voice of Real America. So, it might only take a tiny backward handspring ...

Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso and Amy Adams star in the 2020 adaptation of JD Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. (Lacey Terrell/© Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection) Sen. JD Vance’s bestselling memoir ...

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It's an exciting day for Glenn Close! The 73-year-old actor just scored an Oscar nomination for actress in a supporting role for her Netflix film "Hillbilly Elegy," and she called in to the 3rd hour ...

J.D Vance’s 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy is a reactionary exercise in shaming the poor disguised as a memoir. The new Netflix film based on it and directed by Ron Howard largely dispenses with the ...

American audiences are gluttons for punishment. That’s the only logical explanation for the repeated tendency to be warned, at great volume, that a piece of pop culture is abysmally terrible—and then ...

Videogames and poetry haven't always gone hand in hand. We're still a long way from Master Chief breaking into a Coleridge soliloquy. But game developers Ichiro Lambe and Ziba Scott have edged us a ...