Book news from the New York Times

Rare Books Vanish, With a Librarian in the Plot By RACHEL DONADIO Marino Massimo De Caro, the former director of the Girolamini Library in Naples, is accused of stealing thousands of rare books from the historic institution.

Wired: Putting a Writer and Readers to a Test By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER The Dutch author Arnon Grunberg, and his readers, are the subject of a study that aims to track the physiology of writing and literary appreciation.