Book News: Apple Trial Begins, Humans of the B.E.A.: The New Yorker The trial to determine whether Apple is guilty of e-book price-fixing is underway. A Chilean judge has ordered that police begin a hunt for the man who, according to new evidence, may have poisoned Pablo Neruda forty years ago. The liquor company Baileys is the new sponsor of the British women's-fiction prize formerly called the Orange Prize. Writing is speaking to no one, and even when you're reading to a crowd, you're still in that conversation with the absent, the faraway, the not-yet-born, the unknown and the long-gone for whom writers write, the crowd of the absent who hover all around the desk. An excerpt from Rebecca Solnit's memoir "The Faraway Nearby," which comes out this month. Other June books to watch out for. Germany's longest word, Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, has been officially removed from the country's lexicon. When it comes to other people, can you be confident that your intelligent, socially attuned and generous friend who reads Proust got that way partly because of the reading? At the Opinionator, Gregory Currie wonders whether reading great literature makes us better people. A photo-essay of characters from the B.E.A., by Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the Web site Humans of New York.