Washington Post critic Michael Dirda is depressed. After the election, he couldn’t understand “how to live in a nation governed and controlled by people that even Ayn Rand, let alone Edmund Burke, would despise.”

To cope, Dirda recommends literature: “There certainly will be much to engage serious writers – whether novelists, journalists, playwrights or poets – in the years ahead.”

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