Liveright: 269 books

Cover of The Story of the Iliad: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic and the Last Days of Troy
by Simon Armitage
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015

Award-winning poet Simon Armitage dramatizes the story of Troy, animating this classic epic for a new generation of readers. Following his highly acclaimed dramatization of the Odyssey, Simon Armitage here takes on the fate of Troy, bringing Homer’s Iliad to life with refreshing imaginative...
Cover of The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America's Food

The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America's Food

An Ecstatic Tour through America’s Food

by Matthew Gavin Frank
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015

A richly illustrated culinary tour of the United States through fifty signature dishes, and a radical exploration of our gastronomic heritage. Following his critically acclaimed Preparing the Ghost, renowned essayist Matthew Gavin Frank takes on America’s food. In a surprising style reminiscent...
Cover of One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
by R. Howard Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today. It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities...
Cover of Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
by Brian McGinty
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015

The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge, unalterably changing the course of American transportation history. Within...
Cover of How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
by Ruth Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014

A “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find”...
Cover of El Paso: A Novel
by Winston Groom
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Three decades after the first publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with this sweeping American epic. Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history...
Cover of How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
by Ruth Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018

Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman’s uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her...
Cover of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018

From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction. Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race....
Cover of Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels
by Henry Roth
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014

This "landmark of the American literary century" (Boston Globe) is finally published as one volume, appearing with a brilliant new introduction. Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his...
Cover of Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture
by Michael P. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019

The “philosopher of truth” (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) returns with a clear-eyed and timely critique of our culture’s narcissistic obsession with thinking that “we” know and “they” don’t. Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick Lynch delivers a...
Cover of Common Credo: The Path Back to American Success
by John E. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013

The author of America’s Hidden Success launches a daring and appealing political and economic plan to restore American unity and prosperity. Today, bitter partisanship has sunk our politics into unending stalemate, millions of Americans are struggling to get ahead financially, and cynicism...
Cover of A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
by Adam Briggle
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

From the front lines of the fracking debate, a “field philosopher” explores one of our most divisive technologies. When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban...
Cover of The Enormous Room (New Edition)
by E. E. Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

“Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald The most notable work of fiction from our most beloved modernist poet, The Enormous Room was one of the greatest—yet still not fully recognized—...
Cover of Try the Morgue: A Novel
by Eva Maria Staal
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

From a real-life female gunrunner comes this international bestseller and unforgettable literary debut. Ten years ago, “Eva Maria Staal” kept a gun in her purse. It was a present from her boss, Jimmy Liu, the international arms dealer extraordinaire with a taste for high-class male escorts....
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