Nn Other season quite captures the imagination as winter does. Whether it is the icy landscapes of J.M.W. Turner's paintings or Franz Schubert's "Win-terreisse" song cycle, the chillier aspects of the year continue to fascinate writers, artists and musicians. Canadian-raised Adam Gopnik, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is a self-proclaimed lover of winter and all its varieties: "Grey skies and December lights are my idea of secret joy." In "Winter" he traces the differing sides to the season, its romantic and harsher realities.
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