“. . . readers prone to depression might consider acquiring a prescription for antidepressant medication before attempting to read The Remains of Love.”
For the past 30 years I have taught at a fairly large New England prep school in the Boston suburbs with an internationally diverse student body—co-ed—and both a boarding and day population.
Some kinds of art bear very close examination. Take for example the enormous triptychs of Hieronymous Bosch, full of fantastic but clearly rendered figures human and demonic.
