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A former Federal Reserve vice chairman examines the 2008 financial crisis, how it was handled and what remains to be done.

Wide-ranging essays and a writer’s guide from Phillip Lopate.

The protagonist of Amity Gaige’s novel, worried about an impending divorce, takes off on a road trip with his daughter.

Katherine Bouton explores the experience, and the science, of hearing loss.

Two analysts believe that United States policy in Iran should emulate the opening to China.

A novel of Israelis and Palestinians looks to the days when there was an intimacy to the violence.

Paperback books of particular interest.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

With “Damn Few,” new on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 10, Rorke Denver becomes at least the seventh veteran of the Navy SEALs to have a best seller since Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.

Andrew Solomon, who reviews Emily Bazelon’s “Sticks and Stones” this week, remembers some harrowing trips to school when he was a child.

Satire mingles with warmth and pathos in Sam Lipsyte’s second collection of stories.

What makes for a successful literary byline?

In “Sticks and Stones,” Emily Bazelon charts the experiences of a few bullied children and synthesizes the scholarship on how to contain or prevent such harm.

The author of “Nixon Agonistes,” “Lincoln at Gettysburg” and, most recently, “Why Priests?” considers Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” “the best political writing of our time.”

A reader responds to a recent essay about “Pride and Prejudice.”

Readers respond to a recent review of John Burt’s “Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism.”

Readers respond to a recent review of Daniel Stashower’s “Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War.”

Ms. Zarin discusses her new book of personal essays.

Mr. Moser previously wrote a biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.

Brandi Glanville, whose dishy new divorce memoir, “Drinking and Tweeting,” is at No. 8 on the hardcover nonfiction list, has been a vocal rival of the singer LeAnn Rimes.