J. M. W. Turner, Waves Breaking against the Wind, c. 1840 (Tate Britain)

When events seem to take control of your life and the lives of those around you, sometimes the only appropriate response is awe. One night I was driving home along the Mass Pike in a deceptive...

I’ve been feeling cheered up, paradoxically, by the news that in his new memoir Bruce Springsteen writes at length about his bouts of depression. In the book, titled (what else?) Born to Run, Springsteen talks specifically about a span of years in his early sixties (he...