Are You Old Enough to Read This Book? Reflections on Midlife

New books on aging remind us that the ranks of over-50s move toward the millennium like a melon through a boa constrictor. Are You Old Enough to Read This Book? Reflections on Midlife, edited by Deborah H. Deford, directs its cheerful and varied wisdom to the over-50s gang in the voices of some of our…