Inside out, outside in

Adam Gopnik surveys a year's worth of books about the Internet in the new New Yorker. "A series of books explaining why books no longer matter is a paradox that Chesterton would have found implausible," he says, and goes on from there. Like other such New Yorker surveys, reading this one feels something like taking a walk through the woods with a charming, clever, and jaded nature guide - "The squirrel is renowned as an industrious creature, but let's not forget that it is also a flighty one" - but toward the end Gopnik makes a particularly penetrating point: A...