A very Wainwright thing…

Photograph by Tracy Ketcher

I have been thinking a lot recently, about love. Last week I found myself in the audience of a Rufus Wainwright concert at Yale, and I was struck, once again, at the overwhelming feeling of love in the room. The Wainwrights are a spectacularly talented lot: Loudon Wainwright is the father, Rufus and Martha the children, Kate McGarrigle the mother, and assorted relatives, including Sloan, the aunt (who opened for Rufus at Yale, and whose voice has such resonance and be