Sometimes you get lucky. J.D. Vance could hardly have picked a better moment than the summer of 2016 to publish Hillbilly Elegy, his memoir about overcoming a poverty-ridden, dysfunctional childhood ...

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When JD Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy was published in the summer of 2016, it struck a nerve with liberals and conservatives alike and quickly became a national bestseller. In her review for the New ...

Capitol Hill is rarely the only career venture for politicians. Before taking office, many elected officials have already made a name for themselves in business, economics, advocacy work or tech. Such ...

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J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” an election-year explainer to liberal America about the white underclass that fueled Donald Trump’s rise, has been reborn as blandly overbaked awards bait. Ron Howard’s ...

The movie version of Hillbilly Elegy—based on J.D. Vance’s memoir—is attracting big attention on Netflix since Donald Trump picked the Ohio senator as his running mate in the 2024 presidential ...

I was born in 1946 and raised in a Black coal mining family at the foot of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak, in Harlan County. From its summit, during my frequent hikes as a teenager, I could ...

Oscar Futures: An Elegy for Amy Adams’s ChancesIt says something that even Amy Adams’s own fans don’t want the actress to win her long-awaited trophy for Hillbilly Elegy.

This image released by Netflix shows Haley Bennett, from left, Glenn Close and Owen Asztalos in a scene from "Hillbilly Elegy." (Lacey Terrell/Netflix via AP) J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” an ...