10 culture comforts to beat the post-holiday blues

The chunk of time between the day after Christmas and that first full week in January — when most people find themselves slogging back to work, their hearts and minds full of hopes, aspirations and wishes for a good stretch of luck in a brand new year — is truly a liminal space.

Eyes still glazed from too much nog and a bit burnt out after staring into the blinking lights of the Christmas tree like Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) communing with the beyond via holiday decorations in “Stranger...