A review of Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Thomas Mallon. Justin Norton on the fate of the epistolary novel. A review of The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot. A review of What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960 by Gordon Hutner. Eight years later, many novels have been written about September 11 — what can they tell us about that day? Laura Frost investigates. When lit blew into bits: The meganovel shrank, even as reading itself metastasized. From The Guardian's Book Blog, the ingredients for a blockbuster novel: Big, brash and frequently brutal, it is a genre unto itself; we all know the books we're supposed to be reading, but are they really the most important ones?; and if there's one genre you have to read before you die it's the travel book. Big-name stars with stories to tell

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