Beth Kephart

Frances Godwin, 60-some years old and widowed, is writing her spiritual autobiography — filling the pages of a Clairefontaine notebook with the story of her life. Her sentences are plain...

You read Eula Biss' new book slowly, with care. You are not sure, at first, where it is going. The topic is immunity, also inoculation, also vaccination, epidemics, social responsibility,...

Life is one thing and then another, one day and soon the next, ambition superseded by surprise, desire thwarted by the reality we didn't forecast. Sometimes we get out in...

Books: I need them fierce. I need them fervent. I need them impassioned. I need them to persuade me of their relevance, to yank me by the hair, to strike...

If you are a reader intoxicated by the strange, a reader for whom conceits matter more than characters and song, then Lydia Netzer's "How to Tell Toledo From the Night...

We walk the aisles at the grocery store. We see those magazines. The glossy-haired beauties with the more-white-than-white teeth. The newly baby-bumpless celebrity mom who exudes yogi-style peace. The kale-refreshed...

We walk the aisles at the grocery store. We see those magazines. The glossy-haired beauties with the more-white-than-white teeth. The newly baby-bumpless celebrity mom who exudes yogi-style peace. The kale-refreshed...