It was a month after her son’s election as vice president of the United States and JD Vance ‘s mother wondered why the city ...

Vance is now about to become Trump’s second-in-command, taking office on Monday as US vice-president after a meteoric rise through the worlds of law, venture capital and politics.

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...