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The enTourage eDGe, shown at a trade show in Las Vegas last month, combines an e-book with several other functions.

Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight

By MOTOKO RICH

Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.

Books of The Times

'The Postmistress'

By SARAH BLAKE
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN

Sarah Blake has coaxed forth a book that hits hard and pushes buttons expertly.

A Chronicler of the World Now Looks Inward

By PATRICIA COHEN

The historian Tony Judt, who has written nine books and scores of essays, has lost the ability to move nearly every muscle in his body.

Books of The Times

'Union Atlantic'

By ADAM HASLETT
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI

“Union Atlantic” is a lumpy, disappointing book.

A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person

By ELISABETH BUMILLER

A new group of soldier-writers explore the futility of war — but wars that they for the most part support.

Hans L. Trefousse, Historian and Author, Dies at 88

By MARGALIT FOX

Professor Trefousse was a specialist in Civil War and Reconstruction-era history who taught at Brooklyn College for almost 50 years.

Rebuffing Scholars, Germany Vows to Keep Hitler Out of Print

By NICHOLAS KULISH

There is a developing showdown with scholars over the first German publication of “Mein Kampf” since the end of World War II.

Tomás Eloy Martínez in 1997. He taught at Rutgers University.

Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentine Author Who Merged Fact With Fancy, Dies at 75

By MARGALIT FOX

Mr. Martínez was an Argentine writer whose fiction mingled journalistic and novelistic techniques.

Justice Dept. Criticizes Latest Google Book Deal

By MIGUEL HELFT

While the Justice Department did not explicitly urge a rejection of the deal, its opposition on copyright, class action and antitrust grounds is a setback for Google.

Books of The Times

'Staying True'

By JENNY SANFORD
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN

Jenny Sanford’s account of Gov. Mark Sanford’s headline-making extramarital adventure is a surprisingly energetic exemplar of the “little did I know” genre.

Books of The Times

'The Privileges'

By JONATHAN DEE
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN

“The Privileges” is excessively cryptic, but the story is so invitingly told that it’s much easier to be drawn in than turned off.

Sunday Book Review

'Shadow Tag'

By LOUISE ERDRICH
Reviewed by LEAH HAGER COHEN

Louise Erdrich’s new novel is a portrait of an “iconic” marriage on its way to dissolution, and it appears to be seeded with deliberate allusions to her own marriage with the writer Michael Dorris.

'Where the God of Love Hangs Out'

By AMY BLOOM
Reviewed by FRANCINE du PLESSIX GRAY

The characters in Amy Bloom’s erotically charged, linked stories struggle with love and its loss.

Warren Beatty with Natalie Wood at the Academy Awards in Santa Monica in 1962.

'Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America'

By PETER BISKIND
Reviewed by VANESSA GRIGORIADIS

The life of Warren Beatty, a man as hungry for artistic control as he was for women.

'Monsieur Pain'

By ROBERTO BOLAÑO
Reviewed by WILL BLYTHE

This slender mystery novel from Roberto Bolaño presents a surreal vision of prewar Paris.

'Point Omega'

By DON DELILLO
Reviewed by GEOFF DYER

Don DeLillo explores the radical manipulation of time in this novel, which brings an Iraq war planner, his daughter and a filmmaker together at a house in the desert.

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'Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems'

By TONY HOAGLAND
Reviewed by JOEL BROUWER

Poems that shun trickery and flirt with both beauty and boredom.

'Savage Lands'

By CLARE CLARK
Reviewed by JOHN VERNON

Clare Clark’s tale of a woman sent to Louisiana to marry a colonist she’s never met is told in the spirit of a 19th-century novel.

'For the Soul of France'

By FREDERICK BROWN
Reviewed by SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN

This history examines the moral, religious, artistic and political struggles gripping France before and after the Dreyfus Affair.

'Little Richard'

By DAVID KIRBY
Reviewed by ANTHONY DeCURTIS

An appreciation of Little Richard, one of rock ’n’ roll’s originators.

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'Freefall'

By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
Reviewed by KEVIN PHILLIPS

Joseph Stiglitz has harsh words for President Obama’s approach to the economic crisis.

'Jesus, Jobs, and Justice'

By BETTYE COLLIER-THOMAS
Reviewed by RICHARD THOMPSON FORD

How the church has figured in the lives of black women battling racism and sexism, from the days of slavery to the present.

'Ordinary Thunderstorms'

By WILLIAM BOYD
Reviewed by TERRENCE RAFFERTY

A clever murder and a dose of Big Pharma intrigue sever this novel’s protagonist’s ties to his former life.

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'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'

By REBECCA SKLOOT
Reviewed by LISA MARGONELLI

Rebecca Skloot untangles the ethical issues in the case of a woman whose cancer cells have been the basis for a vast amount of research.

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'A Mountain of Crumbs'

By ELENA GOROKHOVA
Reviewed by ELENA LAPPIN

English became a secret path to personal freedom for the author of this memoir, who escaped the confines of the Soviet Union at age 24.

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'The Great American University'

By JONATHAN R. COLE
Reviewed by CLAUDIA GOLDIN

A survey of the state of American research universities.

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Terrorism and the Pocketbook

By DEVIN LEONARD

To fight terrorism effectively, a new book says, governments must understand its economics — and cut off its revenue streams.

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A Voting Result That Faulkner Could Drink To

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

In a couple of months, a person will be able to buy a beer legally in New Albany, Miss., William Faulkner’s birthplace, for the first time in more than 50 years.