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Who Declares War? - In new books, John Yoo celebrates and Garry Wills denounces the rise of presidential power at the expense of Congress.



Anne Boleyn, Queen for a Day - This history of Anne Boleyn’s downfall evaluates the range of opinion about what lay behind her execution.



Long March - In Joshua Ferris’s second novel, a successful Manhattan trial attorney is afflicted with an uncontrollable compulsion to leave his desk and trek for miles.



The Producer - An oral history of the founder of the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival.



One Thing After Another - How to manage the complexities of the modern world? Simple checklists, a surgeon argues.



Room Service - An exquisitely detailed look at the film that brought us “My mother’s not herself today.’'



Troy Story - A novel exploring the encounter from the “Iliad” between King Priam of Troy and his bitter enemy Achilles.



Capitalist Chameleon - A global history of capitalism in all its creative — and destructive — glory.



The Shopping Cure - Vali Nasr argues that capitalism may be just the antidote for Islamic totalitarianism.



The Year That Was - Why the revolutions of 1989 turned out the way they did.



Fiction Chronicle - Novels by Shira Nayman, Maryse Cond�, Alexander McCall Smith, Simon Mawer and Tash Aw.



Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Jewish Poet and Partisan, Dies - Mr. Sutzkever was one of the great Yiddish poets of his generation who evoked the nightmare of the Holocaust with images of worn shoes and the silence of a sky of white stars.



Slap Shot: Remembering Two Storytellers From the N.H.L. - The hockey world lost two of its most respected communicators last week: John Halligan, a hockey historian, and Paul Quarrington, an award-winning Canadian novelist.



Books of The Times: Conservation as a Matter of Managing People - A continent-hopping examination of the rewilding movement, which stresses the restoration of animal habitats and the importance of migration corridors.



Books of The Times: Trying to Paint the Deity by Numbers Against a Backdrop of Jewish Culture - A big, ambitious novel that is nominally about God but unfolds on the earthly plane, following an academic who finds success with a best seller on atheism.



Newly Released Books - Novels by Elizabeth Kostova, Tracy Chevalier and Randy Susan Meyers; a memoir from Ozzy Osbourne; and a pair of team-written thrillers.



Apple Courts Publishers, While Kindle Adds Apps - A tablet computer from Apple could threaten Amazon’s Kindle, but the Kindle, which now accounts for 70 percent of electronic reader sales, is getting more versatile.



Books of The Times: After Atom Bombs’ Shock, the Real Horrors Began Unfolding - A clear-eyed catalog of the horrors endured by survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.



Robert B. Parker, the Prolific Writer Who Created Spenser, Is Dead at 77 - Mr. Parker was the best-selling mystery writer who created Spenser, a tough, glib Boston private detective who was the hero of nearly 40 novels.



Erich Segal, ‘Love Story’ Author, Dies at 72 - Mr. Segal was a Yale classic professor turned popular writer whose first novel, “Love Story,” became a staggering commercial success if not quite a critical one when it appeared in 1970.



Books of The Times: Skepticism for Obama’s Fiscal Policy - In “Freefall,” a Nobel Prize-winning economist analyzes the recession of 2008, assesses the government’s responses and suggests how America can address flaws in its economic system.



For the Heirs to Holmes, a Tangled Web - For nearly 80 years Sherlock Holmes has been caught in a web of ownership issues so tangled that Professor Moriarty wouldn’t have wished them upon him.



A Very New York Novel Wins Newbery Medal - “When You Reach Me,” by Rebecca Stead, won the children’s literature award on Monday.



Hardcover Fiction - Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
2. THE FIRST RULE, by Robert Crais
3. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown
4. THE SWAN THIEVES, by Elizabeth Kostova
5. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks



Hardcover Nonfiction - Top 5 at a Glance
1. GAME CHANGE, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
2. COMMITTED, by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom
4. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin
5. STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson



Paperback Trade Fiction - Top 5 at a Glance
1. A RELIABLE WIFE, by Robert Goolrick
2. THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold
3. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
4. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks
5. TRUE COLORS, by Kristin Hannah



Paperback Mass-Market Fiction - Top 5 at a Glance
1. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks
2. THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold
3. THE DEVIL’S PUNCHBOWL, by Greg Iles
4. PLUM SPOOKY, by Janet Evanovich
5. STREET GAME, by Christine Feehan



Paperback Nonfiction - Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis
2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
3. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler
5. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls



Essay: Our Boredom, Ourselves - Scientists are arguing that tedium is good for your brain. But some novelists argue that it’s good for your soul.



Crime: Still Life. Very. - Mystery novels by Ian Rankin, Belinda Bauer, Ian Sansom and James Thompson.



With Kindle, the Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell - Here’s a riddle: How do you make your book a best seller on the Kindle? Answer: Give copies away.



The Book Club With Just One Member - For all the social reading forums today, a certain kind of fiction lover will share what’s on the printed page only with a flashlight.



James Patterson Inc. - How a genre writer has transformed book publishing.



TBR: Inside the List - “Game Change,” John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s dishy account of the 2008 presidential campaign, enters the list at No. 1.



Editors’ Choice - Recently reviewed books of particular interest.



Paperback Row - Paperback books of particular interest.



Talk to the Newsroom: Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus - Sam Tanenhaus has been editor of the Book Review since April 2004.