While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.

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April is National Poetry Month, so in honor of that I will offer some thoughts about springtime poems. The first to come to ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

Beyond the cheesesteak universe, Woody’s offers sausage sandwiches that deserve their own fan club. The Italian sausage comes loaded with a perfect storm of peppers, onions, provolone, and spicy ...

Artist Japanese Breakfast and author Michelle Zauner are the same person. You might recognize Japanese Breakfast as the name ...

The 29-year-old singer and songwriter is set to release 'Forever Is a Feeling,' her first solo LP since breaking out as a ...

The artist was a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade, known for her risqué paintings — "the embodiment of this extremely important, extremely central Chicago archetypical artist," one ...

Taylor Swift learned a lot about songwriting from a classic rock hit that she once called "bitter and brazen." ...