Editors’ Choice UNWARRANTED: Policing Without Permission, by Barry Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.) In this accessible study, a legal scholar argues that clear rules governing the use of force and surveillance ( 监管 ), under court guidance and police leadership, are the solution to abusive policing. CANNIBALISM: A Perfectly Natural History, by Bill Schutt. (Algonquin, $26.95.) This account is full of impressive research, drawing on scholarly journals and ancient texts. Schutt, a biologist, shows that cannibalism ( 同类相残 ) in the natural (including human) world is much more common than we once thought. THE SCHOOLDAYS OF JESUS , by J. M. Coetzee. (Viking, $27.) In the second installment of his allegorical fable, the Nobel Prize winner has created a mixed genre combining the energy of philosophical dialogue with the emotional effect of family romance. The result is rich and full of inner tension and suspense ( 悬念 ). PRETENDING IS LYING , by Dominique Goblet. Translated by Sophie Yanow. (New York Review Comics, $24.95.) The Belgian artist uses charcoal, pencil and ink to help explore the important relationships in her life in the first of her books to be translated into English.