![]() ![]() ![]() "Apart from a few setbacks, I have been lucky all my life," writes Diana Athill in Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter (Norton paperback, $14.95), a slender, wonder-filled memoir published when she was a mere 96 years old. I like that in a poet."), poignant and unexpectedly tender. The tale is appropriately dark, but also smart, witty ("Mr. James Darke chronicles ("This journal? A coming-of-old-age book, dispirited, hopelessly knowing.") his self-imposed exile ("I am become a thing of darkness."). ![]() In Rick Gekoski's amazing novel Darke (Canongate, $25), Dr. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore exchange provocative essays-as-discussion in a book that is "about living thoughtfully, and certainly not about dying, gracefully or otherwise." "We need to keep searching for stories of aging in order to expand our grasp," Martha Nussbaum writes in Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles and Regret (Oxford Univ. What better way to begin another year than to read books about getting older? ![]()
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