How to find solace in dark times: there's always art to look up to

If you feel like getting drunk and bingeing on TV this weekend who can blame you? I can, however, suggest works of art that may help with political grieving

I was thrashing around for something that could get me out of the shocked torpor I felt after the election results dropped. After my parents died a few years ago, it was rock’n’roll I turned to. Not now.

The Rolling Stones are out, obviously. I don’t think I can listen to You Can’t Always Get What You Want ever again after hearing it at the end of Trump’s victory speech. Springsteen? No – the stories his songs tell – of blue-collar guys desperate for a break – dramatize the kinds of rust belt sadness that made some people vote for Trump.

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