A myth-busting guide to the ins and outs of inflation from two leading political economists
Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—live beside each other, fighting, and sometimes failing, to be more than their pasts say they should be
The definitive collection of one of the most celebrated poets of his generation and a master of the lyric poem in its richest, most flexible registers
A revelatory account of the wave of arson-for-profit that hit American cities in the 1970s, and of the tenants who put out the fires and reclaimed their neighbourhoods
A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war
This inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl × Liveright series is a darkly whimsical debut about women daring to live and create with impunity.
Three lifelong friends confront restless ghosts and malevolent family secrets in this fierce, propulsive debut young adult horror novel
A riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning experimental physicist hailed as “the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century"
A celebrated food writer’s expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture
A formidable literary critic explores how nine women artists flourished creatively in their final acts
A boy’s green thumb grows wild in this playful debut picture book about the merriment and mishaps of collecting houseplants
The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them