It was a cloudless January night. By 5:30, the sun had been down for an hour, and the full moon — the Wolf Moon — was low in the sky. Just outside the patio door, I heard a sharp click — like a pebble ...

In “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (1799), a famous engraving by Francisco Goya, we see a human figure asleep at a desk, his head resting heavily on his arms, surrounded by swarms of owls and ...