Today we're immensely pleased to open a new section on TMN called "Digest." What we'll be featuring: a stack of book notices awaiting you every Monday morning; on Wednesdays, a round-up of what's going on in the world of mp3 blogs (and we'll have some downloads of our own as well); and, every Friday, a look at the week in videos on the web. To start, here's today's installment of Books of the Week, by Robert Birnbaum. We hope you enjoy the new format, and if you have any feedback or tips on something you think we should cover, as always, please let us know. (An RSS feed for Digest is available here: Digest XML.)