Certain requirements must be met for a public health issue to be classified an epidemic. These include a demonstrable negative health impact — and victims. The flu is a yearly epidemic, and opioid addiction is turning rapidly into a serious…

Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J.F. Powers, 1942-1963Edited by Katherine A. Powers(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pages, $35) IN SUITABLE ACCOMODATIONS, Katherine A. Powers presents selections from the correspondence of her father, the American…