Monday Evening Book Reviews

Eight hundred-odd years of the art of written correspondence is examined to good result by Thomas Mallon in YOURS EVER: PEOPLE AND THEIR LETTERS.

Nevermind that football is in full swing, and banish hockey from your thoughts, sports fans. Bill Simmons winds up the devotees of the orange ball with facts, trivia, and the occasional error in THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL: THE NBA ACCORDING TO THE SPORTS GUY.

New releases in children’s book earn a page over at Publishers Weekly.

Michael Crichton will have to make due (from the Great Beyond) with a middling review of PIRATE LATITUDES over at CreativeLoafing.com.

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