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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 a new book, an artist takes organization to the extreme.

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.”

A look today's top news in the book and publishing industry.

Are you in love? These literary locales are worth a visit.

Ms. Zarin discusses her new book of personal essays.

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

A look at today's top news from the book and publishing industry.

'With or Without You' is about life with her mother, a drug addict and dealer.

Four diverse memoirs cover a range of emotions and experiences.

His webcast will take kids deep into the stories and artifacts that shaped the nation.

The drummer of The Roots will write 'Mo' Meta Blues,' out June 18.

Authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl talk about bringing their book to the big screen.