Larry Green: Anarchy or liminality?

“You want it darker” was the title of Leonard Cohen’s last album. He died just two days before Donald Trump won the U.S. election. The title song expressed what many of us feel but won’t acknowledge: a rumbling of terror beneath “business as usual.”
I recall my mother saying, in the months leading up to her death, “I’m doing normal things — making the bed, sweeping the floor, emptying the wastebasket — in the hope that doing those thing