The Asylum on the Hill: ‘Alex Beam, the author of Gracefully Insane, probes the rich past of a mental hospital renowned for ministering to prominent, creative, and aristocratic patients…’ (McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., where I worked early in my career and about whose literary and artistic denizens, among whom figure Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ray Charles and James Taylor, I’ve previously written here). The Atlantic [thanks, Abby]