Elizabeth Brunig: Autumn’s blessed darkness is coming

Long summer days are over, on the wrong side of this year's equinox. They're the stuff advertisements and music videos are made of: venturing abroad, chasing romance, staying out late. But they're draining, too, hot and persistent, full of noise.This past summer was particularly loud and stifling and cluttered, with the fever pitch of political theater bleeding into the furious heat. On some interminable afternoons, it was hard to tell if I owed my periodic headache to the news or the weather or