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A new song comes upon us moodily and yet it’s not a sad thing. It’s thicker. It’s a feeling of abandon, like the ragged chaos of the last day of school, the building nearly emptied out, the derelict textbooks flapping open, the rooms empty, the locker doors flung wide, the smell of firecrackers and menace.
The End of Everything
Megan Abbott
Living a good life often requires integrating a bundle of contrasts into a durable whole. The psychiatrist Leston Havens explains, in his book Learning to Be Human, that mental health depends on both freedom and compliance, radical independence and persistent loyalty. “My model will be Lincoln,” Havens writes, “who seemed as hard as granite and as soft as a cloud. I will learn to be as strong and as weak as I need to be.”
Lincoln's Melancholy
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Everything felt electrically charged. Ordinary objects gave off strange optical effects, flares and sunspots and coronas. The stars were low, burning orbs, visibly spherical, pregnant with illegible meaning. A powerful golden light shone through everything, as if the world were only a thin scrim behind which a magnificent sun was shining.
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
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