The timeless craft seems to be having a resurgence, at least within the East Baton Rouge Library System. EBR library branches offer free groups for all ages.

‘OK, that’s that. It’s over now,’ Björn Ulvaeus thought after Abba broke up in 1982. ‘But,’ as Chal Ravens writes in the latest LRB, ‘Björn’s zeitgeist detector was, as usual, on the blink.’ By the ...