Click Here to Read: ‘The Violet Hour,’ by Katie Roiphe, Reviewed by Olivia Laing in The New York Times on March 24, 2016.
Go gentle? Or rage, rage? Top row, from left: Sigmund Freud, Dylan Thomas and Susan Sontag; bottom row: Maurice Sendak, John Updike and James Salter.CreditTop row from left: Associated Press; Hulton Archive/Getty Images; HSP Archive. Bottom row: Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times; Robert Spencer for The New York Times; Ulf Andersen/Getty Images.