Liveright Publishing

01/08/2026

The terrain is arctic, but the books are hot. Behold Liveright’s stellar, far-ranging season of new reads: lessons in selfhood, classics revitalized, the next volume in our Books series, poetry’s legends and rising stars, an antidote to the cultural tensions that divide our communities and psyches, a groundbreaking history of blackface in America, a short history of bad ideas about women, a journey through space-time in pursuit of the present moment, and more. Available for preorder using the link in our bio: get ‘em while they’re fresh, ‘cause we’re already making more.

11/19/2025

Exclusively at your local Barnes & Noble: while supplies last, receive a free Wings vinyl slipmat with your purchase of Paul McCartney's extraordinary new book WINGS: THE STORY OF A BAND ON THE RUN!

(Only available while supplies last. Slipmat is located behind the store register.)

11/18/2025

In stores now: Deborah Willis' "REFLECTIONS IN BLACK: A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present", now in it's 25th Anniversary "Reframing" Edition! Scroll through this carousel to see but a few of the hundreds of momentous photographs included in this extraordinary project: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091790

Originally published in 2000, "Reflections in Black" was the first single-volume work to collect the images of leading African American photographers—from the daguerreotype to the digital age. Through its sheer power and inherent beauty, Deborah Willis’s groundbreaking assemblage of photographs of African American life from 1840 to the present triumphantly celebrated family, endurance, and spirituality over the last two centuries as it upended stereotypes and rewrote American history. Aware that so much has changed since 2000, Willis—a world-renowned photographer, curator, and author—has now created a breathtaking twenty-fifth anniversary edition, juxtaposing hundreds of images that appeared in the original edition with 130 new ones.

Exceptionally handsome and historically consequential, "Reflections in Black" is not only the rare volume that can be given as a gift on any occasion but a work so significant that it has the power to reconfigure the imagination. This anniversary edition demands to be included in every American’s library as an essential part of our country’s heritage.

“If a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then Deborah Willis has given us nothing less than an epic history of Homeric proportions. Taken together, Willis’s magnificent gathering of images accompanied by her powerful narrative overturns many common ideas about black life during the last century and a half, and in so doing rewrites American history.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, from the Foreword

11/04/2025

👐 WINGS: THE STORY OF A BAND ON THE RUN 👐 — the definitive oral history of Paul McCartney's legendary band WINGS and his storied career as one of the worlds' greatest musical innovators, featuring more than 150 photographs and interviews with Paul, his family, band members and close contemporaries — is now available wherever books are sold!

11/03/2025

Available worldwide tomorrow — Tuesday November 4th — check out 's WINGS: THE STORY OF A BAND ON THE RUN is on the billboard here in midtown Manhattan at the corner of at the corner of 7th Ave and 34th Street! Our thanks to for helping make WINGS soar here in New York City!

“A must-read for fans of The Beatles in general and their solo careers in specific. And the story of Wings is a doozy, to put it mildly.... 'Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run’ takes readers on an inspiring journey from the rudimentary efforts behind Wings' 'Wild Life' in 1971 through the apex of arena rock in the mid-1970s and beyond. The book includes a vast assemblage of band member recollections as collected by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville. And they don’t disappoint.... A powerful rejoinder to the band’s critics—and there were many in the 1970s who queued up in hopes of seeing McCartney’s post-Beatles experiment fail.”
—Kenneth Womack,

10/27/2025

10/10/2025

Kicked off the book tour last night in Ann Arbor with a sell out of 1,100 at Rackham Auditorium. Had to turn some away, unfortunately. Schuler Books, GLSM Director Bruce Lynn, who introduced me, and the crowd were all great! Thanks to all!
Check out the next stops on my site: johnubacon.com/book-tour/

10/07/2025

In stores *TODAY*! 🌳

“Epigrammatic and intimate . . . A consolation rather than a provocation, and occasionally darkly funny . . . It might have you mulling your own pithy epitaph.” —Alexandra Jacobs, 🌱

“The simplicity and depth of this crystal-clear prose fill me with great admiration.” —Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 🌱

From Georgi Gospodinov, the International –winning author of "Time Shelter" comes DEATH AND THE GARDENER, a powerful novel about a father, a son, and the botany of grief.

“My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.”

A man named Georgi sits patiently by his father’s bedside, until a final winter morning.

Navigating a season of grief, Georgi parses through the endless stories his father used to tell, and the history of his whole generation—boys born in Bulgaria at the end of the World War II, grown into men “often absent—clinging to the snorkel of a cigarette,” swimming in “other waters and clouds.” Out of a barren village yard, Georgi’s father created a special sanctuary: A lush garden where he would live on in the snowdrop sprouts and the first tulips of spring. But without him, Georgi’s past, with all its afternoons, begins to crack.

With striking acuity, Gospodinov explores the quiet rituals of mourning—how we tame sorrow through storytelling and guide a life through to its end. Spanning from ancient Ithaca to present-day Sofia, the novel draws connections between myth and memory, place and emotion. Full of light and unflinching humor, and masterfully translated by Angela Rodel, DEATH AND THE GARDENER is another profoundly moving work from “one of Europe’s most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists” (Dave Eggers).
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10/02/2025

One of only 175 limited signed edition copies available in the U.S. of WINGS: THE STORY OF A BAND ON THE RUN could be yours! Packaged in a deluxe cloth case featuring screen printing, including a bound-in booklet of Wings-era album and single artwork, an exclusive color vinyl of the forthcoming WINGS LP, and a special enamel pin and embroidered patch — each copy will be numbered and signed by Paul McCartney. On sale November 25, available now for pre-order: https://medium.com//wings-the-story-of-a-band-on-the-run-limited-signed-edition-by-paul-mccartney-111b5f599e3f

08/26/2025

“Howard French’s 'The Second Emancipation' stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” ―David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In stores today, THE SECOND EMANCIPATION ― referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom ― positions this liberation at the center of a “movement of global Blackness,” with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), at its head.

Determined to re-create Nkrumah’s life as “an epic twentieth-century story,” "The Second Emancipation" begins with his impoverished, unheralded birth in the far-western region of Ghana’s Gold Coast. Years later, in a political landslide he engineered while imprisoned, Nkrumah stunned Britain by winning the first general election under universal franchise in Africa, becoming Ghana’s first independent prime minister in 1957. As leader of a sovereign nation, Nkrumah wielded his influence to promote the liberation of the entire continent, pushing unity as the only pathway to recover from the damages of enslavement and subjugation. By the time national military and police forces, aided by the CIA, overthrew him in 1966, Nkrumah’s radical belief in pan-African liberation had both
galvanized dozens of nascent African states and fired a global agenda of Black power.

In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, THE SECOND EMANCIPATION becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history.

08/19/2025

New in paperback: a satirical tale of a young man flush with newfound wealth who promptly gets swindled, QUINCAS BORBA is an inspired critique of nineteenth-century Brazil.

Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America’s greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly innovative narrative techniques and uncanny talent for unraveling the social and political milieu of nineteenth-century Brazil. These signature traits are on full display in QUINCAS BORBA, a novel that sees Machado satirize a rapidly changing Rio de Janeiro.

Originally published in 1891, the story begins with the death of its titular character, a mad philosopher infamous for spouting pessimistic theories of “Humanitism.” Borba leaves his fortune―including his dog, also named Quincas Borba―to Rubião, his loyal caretaker and a schoolteacher by trade. Bestowed with opulence beyond his wildest dreams, Rubião is quickly coaxed into the comforts of a rich man’s life―the only stipulation being that he continues to care for the canine Quincas Borba with the same dedication he once did the human. Adrift in the big, bad, bustling world of late-1860s Rio de Janeiro, it isn’t long before Rubião is targeted by the city’s sycophants, who can smell his naïveté from a mile away.

Playfully told by an omniscient and possibly unreliable narrator, the novel is at once irreverent and ambitious, brimming with barbed wit and keen philosophical inquiry. Brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson―the duo credited with introducing a new generation of readers to Machado through their translations of “Dom Casmurro”, “The Collected Stories”, and “Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas”―QUINCAS BORBA is another strikingly modern tale from a blazing progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.