A Library of Resistance: Books to Help You Beat Despair

This week, I’ve written a great deal on “Deaths of Despair.” They’ve taken America by the throat, and if we let them, they’ll threaten to do us in. As I wrote yesterday, we can resist the creeping despair by developing our own rhythms, rituals, and liturgies of resistance. But if you’ve never created personal rituals and rhythms, if you’ve never participated in spiritual liturgies, where do you start?

The Book of Waking Up: Experiencing the Divine Love That Reorders a Life, by Me. Sure, this...