AP - Usher, "Here I Stand" (LaFace/Zomba)

AP - "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham. 294 pages. $26), by Sarah Lacy: Silicon Valley, that high-tech hub of innovation and occasional hubris, is rising again, driven by a new generation of idea men who learned from the dot-com crash or came of age after it.

AP - The ruling government is holding an alleged terrorist without legal representation. The prosecutor repeatedly expresses his intent to execute the prisoner, ideally without a trial. The government may also be fabricating damaging evidence to defame the prisoner's reputation, thus ensuring he is not well-remembered by his admirers or by history.

AP - "A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America" (Viking, 366 pages, $24.95), by Dudley Clendinen: A journalist takes readers inside his mother's housing complex for the elderly and inside the complicated reality of aging in America today.

Reuters - Sarajevo filmmaker Emir Kusturica gives Argentine football legend Diego Maradona a big wet kiss in his new documentary, "Maradona by Kusturica," which screened out of competition at Cannes.

AP - How does Uwe Boll keep getting work?

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Is there anything more heartbreaking than what might have been? Recollections of regret are the soul of "Port Authority," a series of three superb, interlocking monologues by Conor McPherson that offers ample evidence why the Irish playwright is one of the finest writers for the stage today.

AP - "Black Out" (Crown Publishers. 368 pages. $23), by Lisa Unger: Anybody who has cracked open a mystery novel in the last 25 years knows by now there are two Floridas. There's the sunny, pastel-hued, happy Walt Disney Florida. And then there's the Florida teeming with lunatics in trailer parks and bodies in the saw grass.

AP - Last year, John Cusack starred in the small, moving drama "Grace Is Gone," about a father struggling to explain to his daughters that their mother has been killed while serving in Iraq.