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

Three books describe the work of government investigators who want to uncover or bury the truth.

The second novel from the co-host of the “Who? Weekly” podcast follows a West Village writer in the early 1990s and today.

In this collaboratively written novel, Lower East Side dwellers get through lockdown swapping colorful tales on the roof of their scruffy building.

“Fox” details the devastation wrought by a manipulative English teacher who sexually abuses his students.

In “Framed,” an advocate for the wrongly accused joins forces with John Grisham to tell stories of justice denied.

The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.

In his fast-paced novel, Alejandro Puyana recounts the struggles and impossible choices of a family in deeply troubled Venezuela.

Heather McGowan’s novel “Friends of the Museum” takes place over a single, chaotic day in the lead-up to a Met-inspired costume gala.

In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.