Books, Arts & Manners: A Worm in the Apple

Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest, by Peter Huber (Free Press, 374 pp., $22.95)

The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, by Sven Birkerts (Faber & Faber, 231 pp., $22.95)