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In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction.

Sergio De La Pava’s novel “Every Arc Bends Its Radian” is a detective story that takes a strange turn in Colombia’s dark underbelly.

In “Heartbreak Is the National Anthem,” Rob Sheffield chronicles how Taylor Swift has made fans, foes and even journalists part of her story.

He memorably portrayed a frizzy-haired science teacher roping her elementary school class into adventures aboard a shape-shifting yellow bus.

The celebrity chef’s second children’s book, “Billy and the Epic Escape,” faced accusations that it stereotyped First Nations people in Australia.

In a new biography, Peter Ames Carlin chronicles the rise of an indispensable band and the evolution of its music.

Peter Brown’s obsession with the abandoned railway that became the High Line led to two best sellers — including “The Wild Robot,” which is now a blockbuster movie.

Our columnist on a handful of recently reissued crime novels, all of which are worth your time.

In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street.

In a dual biography, the journalist Lili Anolik casts the two writers as opposite sides of the same ambitious, 1960s-Hollywood coin.