While James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is built on a smidge of deception ... set to song and in the register of ...

The winsome result brings to mind the humanity of John Carney’s music-driven films ... and authentic in an effortless way. Because “The Ballad of Wallis Island” wants to give some time ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

The director James Griffith’s “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is a sublime, adorable comedy whose roots can be traced to a ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The Hill We Climb," took to social media Saturday to express her condolences ...

Focus Features has set a March 28 limited release for The Ballad of Wallis Island, which is set to have its world premiere at this month’s Sundance Film Festival. Pic follows Charles (Tim Key ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Until now, that has done nothing to undermine the enduring popularity of the ballad, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the Billboard charts and remains a perennial if puzzling favourite at weddings.