Fall 2024 Liveright Publishing

Watford Forever

How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town, and

Each Other

John Preston and Elton John

$28.99 hardcover | Can. $38.99 • CQ 24 Territory T • ISBN 9781324095477 • 6 x 9 36 black-and-white illustrations • 352 Pages • SPORTS & RECREATION

The unforgettable story, decades before Ted Lasso, of the real-life Watford Football Team, transformed into a powerhouse by coach Graham Taylor and owner Elton John.

Nothing has brought English soccer more immediately into the American mainstream than Ted Lasso, which captivated the nation in thirty-four episodes over three seasons. But before there was Jason Sudeikis’s lovable and, at first, hapless AFC Richmond, there was Watford Football Club, a team from the outskirts of London with barely enough fans to fill its stands—and which, in the mid-1970s, was languishing in 92nd place at the bottom of the last division of the English Football League. That is, until rock superstar Elton John—who, with his dad, had followed the team as a boy— bought the lowly franchise and, with legendary manager Graham Taylor, transformed the luckless football club into a top-seeded Premier League team. Inspiring, funny, and ultimately heartbreaking, Watford Forever recalls the improbably tender relationship between Elton John and Taylor, a straight-talking former fullback, who together beat the odds and their personal demons to save a club and a struggling community.

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John Preston was the Sunday Telegraph's television critic and one of its chief feature writers for ten years. He lives in London.

Elton John's honors include two Oscars and six Grammys. The honorary lifetime president of Watford FC, he was chairman of the club from 1976 to 1987 and 1997 to 2002. He lives in England.

Quarterlife

A Novel Devika Rege

“In the fashion of the big novels by Salman Rushdie or Amitav Gosh” (Biblio), Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. When the Bharat Party comes to power after a divisive election, Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant, is lured home to Mumbai. With him is Amanda, a restless New Englander eager to embody her ideals through a teaching fellowship in a Muslimmajority slum. Meanwhile, Naren’s charismatic brother Rohit, an amateur filmmaker, sets out to explore his roots and befriends the fiery young men of the Hindu nationalist machine. Their journeys lead them into an astonishing milieu of brutal debates and infatuations as fraught as they are addictive, feeding into a festive night when all of Mumbai is on the streets—where the simmering unrest erupts. Hailed as “a landmark novel” (Indian Express), Quarterlife is a brilliantly innovative work that tests the limits of what the novel can achieve.

Devika Rege was born in Pune, India, and lives in Bangalore. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell. She teaches at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, and Quarterlife is her debut novel.

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India’s literary novel of the year—an enthralling, award-winning debut from a “blazingly original voice” (Vauhini Vara).

Suja Nambiar

A New Philosophy of Opera

Yuval Sharon

$29.99 hardcover | Can. $39.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781631496868 • 6 x 9 21 photographs, 12 line drawings; 8 page color insert • 320 Pages • MUSIC

From “the most imaginative director in the US” (New York Times) comes this generational work with a vision for transforming opera into a powerhouse cultural phenomenon.

Visionary director Yuval Sharon has been celebrated as one of the world’s most innovative opera impresarios, yet he has never adhered to traditional form, observing that most operas “suffer the dull edge of routine in unimaginative and woefully underrehearsed productions.” Sharon seeks to disrupt conventions by urging the performance of opera in “non-spaces” like parking lots; amplifying voices; and even performing classic works in reverse order. Surveying the role of opera in America and drawing on his experiences from Berlin to Los Angeles, Sharon lays out his vision for an “anti-elite opera,” which celebrates the imagination and challenges the status quo. Refusing to believe that opera is dying, Sharon maintains that opera has always existed in a perpetual cycle of death and rebirth. Engaging and accessible, A New Philosophy of Opera, with its advocacy of opera as an “enchanted space” and its revolutionary message, promises to be one of the liveliest opera books in years.

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Yuval Sharon is an opera director and a MacArthur Fellow. He founded The Industry in Los Angeles, where he directed new operas in moving cars and train stations. As artistic director of Detroit Opera, he has transformed the company into a premiere destination for progressive opera.

Reagan

His Life and Legend

Max Boot

From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics. Despite his fame as a Hollywood star and television host, Reagan remained an enigma—a man of profound contradictions—even to those closest to him. Believing that this inscrutability contributed to Reagan’s appeal, Max Boot sought to reveal the real man behind the mythology. Drawing on more than a hundred new interviews and thousands of newly available documents, Reagan tells the epic story of the Depression-era poor boy who transfixed the nation. Yet Boot, a one-time Republican policy advisor, offers no apologia, depicting a man with a Manichean, good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing. Providing revelatory insights into “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the IranContra affair, and so much more, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

Max Boot, historian and foreignpolicy analyst, is a senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post. His New York Times bestseller The Road Not Taken was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician—America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in

Cynthia Van Elk

Eurotrash

A Novel Christian Kracht, Translated by Daniel Bowles

$25.99 hardcover | Can. $34.99 • CQ 24 Territory M • ISBN 9781324094562 • 5½ x 8¼ 192 Pages • FICTION

A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning.

From “the great German-language writer of his generation” (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Kracht’s career narrated by an eponymous “Christian” (the first was his best-selling 1995 debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has arrived to care for his eighty-year-old mother after her discharge from a mental institution. Reckoning with his family’s dark history—his long-dead grandfather was intimately associated with and unapologetically supportive of the Nazis—and struggling to navigate the emotionally wrenching terrain of his relationship with his mother, Christian sets off on a road-trip with her. As they traverse Switzerland in a hired cab, mother and son attempt to give away her vast fortune, which they’re carrying in a large plastic bag, to random strangers. By turns disturbing, disorienting, hilarious, and poignant, Eurotrash tells an intensely personal and unsparingly critical story of contemporary culture; a story that shows us a writer at the pinnacle of his powers of insight and observation.

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Christian Kracht's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His novel Imperium won the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in 2012. He lives in Zurich with his wife and daughter Daniel Bowles's translation of Imperium won the Goethe-Institut's Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2016. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Julian

Baumann

Load in Nine Times

Poems

Frank X. Walker

$26.99 hardcover | Can. $35.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324094937 • 5½ x 8¼ 3 illustrations • 112 Pages • POETRY

From former poet laureate of Kentucky and founder of the Affrilachian Poets, a collection of historical poetry that gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers.

For decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved explorer who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition, in Buffalo Dance, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers—including his own ancestors—who enlisted in the Union Army in exchange for emancipation. Moving chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reconstruction, Walker braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops with their family members, as well as slaveowners and prominent historical figures—including Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Margaret Garner—into a wide-ranging series of “persona poems” imbued with atmospheric imagery and brimming with indomitable spirit. Evoking the pride and perseverance of formerly enslaved General Charles Young, Walker hums: “I, am America’s promise, my mother’s song, / and the reason my father had every right to dream.”

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Frank X Walker is the author of twelve poetry collections. He was named the 2013 Kentucky poet laureate and is cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky

Miss Kim Knows

And Other Stories

Cho Nam-joo, Translated by Jamie Chang

$26.99 paperback | Can. $35.99 • CQ 24 Territory U • ISBN 9781324095316 • 5½ x 8¼ 224 Pages • FICTION

From the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, a collection exploring the intimacies of contemporary Korean womanhood.

A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again.

Written in Cho Nam-joo’s signature razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows follows eight women, ranging from preteens to octogenarians, as they confront how gender shapes and orders their lives. In “Under the Plum Tree,” Mallyeo feels existential as she bears witness to her sister’s final days; in “Dear Hyunnam Oppa,” a college graduate musters the courage to leave her partner; and in “Grown-Up Girl,” a mother finally confronts her generational biases for the sake of her daughter. “Despite her characters’ hardship and disappointments, there is mischief and glee to be found in these pages” (Hephzibah Anderson, Observer), resulting in another riveting read from an essential voice in world literature.

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Cho Nam-joo was a television scriptwriter for nine years. She is the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, and most recently, Saha Jamie Chang is an award-winning translator who teaches at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

Minumsa

Washita Love Child

The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis

Douglas Kent Miller

$32.50 hardcover | Can. $42.50 • CQ 16 Territory M • ISBN 9781324092094 • 6 x 9 34 black-and-white illustrations • 464 Pages • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The spectacular untold story of the Indigenous guitarist who catapulted to fame backing Taj Mahal, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon amidst the sweeping social transformations of the twentieth century.

Jesse Ed Davis shared stages with the greatest music stars of the 1960s and ’70s. His riffs and licks enlivened albums by three of four Beatles, and recordings by artists as distinct as Eric Clapton, Leonard Cohen, and Cher. But Davis—whose name has been all but lost to the annals of rock ’n’ roll history—was more than just the most versatile session guitarist of the decade. By pairing bright flourishes with soulful melodies, Davis exploded our idea of what rock music could be, and who could make it. Interweaving more than a hundred interviews with legendary peers, bandmates, and family members, Washita Love Child reimagines the Kiowa-Comanche musician’s improbable career, from his childhood in Oklahoma to his first major gig backing rockabilly star Conway Twitty, and from his climactic, dramatic performance at George Harrison’s 1971 Concert for Bangladesh to his tragic demise, years later, in Los Angeles.

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A professor of history at Oklahoma State University and a former working musician, Douglas Miller specializes in twentieth-century Native American history. He is the author of Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century. He lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

What Remains

The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt, Edited by Samantha Rose Hill, Translated by Genese Grill

$26.99 hardcover | Can. $35.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324090526 • 5½ x 8¼ 1 illustration • 192 Pages • POETRY

A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Hannah Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English—into a single edition.

The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt is internationally renowned for her work on totalitarianism, the human condition, and the banality of evil. While Arendt often acknowledged that the language of poetry—especially that of Dickinson, Goethe, and Lowell—informed her writing on these subjects, relatively few people know that she also wrote poems. In fact, between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote seventy-four poems, many of them signposts in a virtual autobiography, marking moments of joy, love, loss, and remembrance. Now, for the first time in English, Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill present these intensely personal poems in chronological order, taking us from the zenith of the Weimar Republic to the Cold War, and from Marburg, Germany, to New York’s Upper West Side. A gift to all readers of Arendt, this stunning, en face edition provides an unparalleled view into the inner sanctum of one of our most private thinkers.

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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-born political scientist and philosopher She is the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem, among other books. Samantha Rose Hill is the author of Critical Lives: Hannah Arendt, and a writer and professor at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Genese Grill is a translator and scholar of Germanic literature.

Ira Gershwin

A Life in Words

Michael Owen

$37.99 hardcover | Can. $50.99 • CQ 16 Territory W • ISBN 9781324091813 • 6 x 9 30 illustrations • 400 Pages • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The man behind some of the most memorable lyrics in the great American songbook emerges from his brother’s shadow.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning American lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook—songs written largely for Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s. Now, in the first full-length biography devoted to his life, Ira Gershwin steps out at last from the long shadow cast by his younger and more famous brother George.

It’s a life with a sharp dividing line; we witness Ira’s transformation by George’s death at thirty-eight. From carefree dreamer and successful lyricist, he becomes guardian of his brother’s legacy and manager of complex family dynamics, even while continuing to practice his craft with composers like Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern.

Drawing on extensive archival sources and often using Ira’s own words, Michael Owen offers a rich portrait of the modest man who penned the words to many of America’s best-loved songs.

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Michael Owen is a historian, researcher, and archivist. He is the author of Go Slow: The Life of Julie London (2017), and the editor of the forthcoming volume The Gershwins Abroad He currently resides in Port Washington, Wisconsin

Portraits in Life and Death

Peter Hujar, Foreword by Benjamin Moser, Introduction by Susan Sontag

$65.00 hardcover | Can. $86.00 • CQ 16 Territory W • ISBN 9781324092179 • 10 x 11 41 black-and-white photographs • 112 Pages • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.

The 1976 publication of Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, “was and remains one of the most somberly beautiful and influential photography collections of its era” (Holland Cotter, senior art critic of the New York Times). When Hujar passed away in 1987, his work was relatively unknown except for a small following. The importance and artistic mastery of Hujar’s photography, its tender gravity and intimacy, became recognized and canonical only after his death. The republication of this collection is composed of the original introduction by Susan Sontag and preceded by a new foreword by Benjamin Moser, with photographs presented in two sequences. A stirring ode to the flourishing downtown scene of the 1970s, this collection remains a deeply moving artifact of postStonewall New York City

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Peter Hujar was a photographer best known for his intimate portrait work, a legendary figure in New York's downtown subculture of the 1970s and 80s. He was born in 1934 in Trenton, New Jersey, and died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1987. Benjamin Moser was born in Houston, Texas, and lives in Utrecht. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, and for Sontag: Her Life and Work, he won the Pulitzer Prize.

The Rest Is Memory

A Novel Lily Tuck

$24.99 hardcover | Can. $33.99 • CQ 36 Territory M • ISBN 9781324095729 • 5½ x 8¼ 1 map • 128 Pages • FICTION

The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo in the hands of one of our greatest novelists.

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a village in southeastern Poland before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed by prisoner Wilhelm Brasse. Three months later she is dead.

How did this—the fictionalized account of a real person who was Catholic—happen?

This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel, which frames Czeslawa’s story within the epic tragedy of six million Poles, Jewish and Catholic, who perished during the German occupation. Also evoking, among others, the writer Tadeusz Borowski’s ill-fated life and Janusz Korczak’s valorous attempts to save orphaned children, Czeslawa becomes an unforgettable work of historical reclamation that rescues an innocent life, one previously only recalled by a stark triptych of photographs.

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Lily Tuck, the winner of the National Book Award for The News from Paraguay, is the author of seven novels, three short story collections, and a biography of Elsa Morante The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, she lives in New York

Julie Thayer

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri, Translated by Michael Palma

$45.00 hardcover | Can. $60.00 • CQ 16 Territory W • ISBN 9781324095545 • 6 x 9

576 Pages • POETRY

A masterfully lyrical translation of the complete Commedia that brings Dante’s famous terza rima to contemporary readers.

When Michael Palma’s translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante’s intricate terza rima form simply could not be rendered in “rhyme-poor” English. But Palma’s achievement in rhyming tercets was quickly received as a spectacular feat of poetic artistry that was “accurate . . . admirably clear, and readable” (Richard Wilbur) and that, “in capturing the sense, sound, and spirit of the original... comes close to perfection” (X. J. Kennedy).

Now, more than two decades later, Palma has applied the same virtuosic attention to the form and flow of the Purgatorio and Paradiso, attending to both the tiniest details and the grand design of the entire Commedia and offering a fluid and readable English version that reveals to contemporary readers the sound, sense, and awe-inspiring beauty of Italian literature’s greatest poem.

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Michael Palma has published six collections of original poetry and nearly twenty books of translations of modern and contemporary poets. He has received numerous awards, including the Italo Calvino Award from the Translation Center of Columbia University. His most recent book is Faithful in My Fashion: Essays on the Translation of Poetry. He lives in Vermont.

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Vita Nuova

Dante Alighieri, Translated by Joseph Luzzi

$25.99 hardcover | Can. $34.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324095521 • 4½ x 7¼ 128 Pages • POETRY

Dante’s first masterpiece in an enticing new translation by one of our most beloved teachers of Italian literature and culture.

Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dante’s “little book,” the Vita Nuova, has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture and is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well as an essential precursor to Dante’s sublime poetic apotheosis, the Divine Comedy

Now Joseph Luzzi, celebrated author of books about Italian literature and culture and a lifelong lover and teacher of Dante’s poetry, gives us a version of the Vita Nuova that is fresh, contemporary, and approachable—as vital and vivid as Dante’s original Tuscan dialect—rendered in a voice that will entice a new generation of readers to swoon over one of the most heartbreaking stories of unfulfilled love in all of world literature.

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Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning writer, teacher, and scholar of Italian culture. His latest book, Botticelli's Secret was shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize and was selected as a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

Helena Baillie

“Kelley’s Black

Folk

Black Folk

The Roots of the Black Working Class

Blair LM Kelley

$21.99 paperback | Can. $28.99 • CQ 36 Territory N • ISBN 9781324095576 • 5½ x 8¼ 30 illustrations • 352 Pages • HISTORY

opens our minds up to Black workers, narrating their complex lives over 200 years of American history.”—Ibram X. Kendi,

There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost-mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has erased the existence of everyday Black workers. In her brilliant corrective, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class—from laundresses and Pullman porters to domestic maids and postal workers—to the center of the American story. And with the resurgence of labor activism in our own time, her book serves as a stirring history of our possible future.

“Blair LM Kelley ties the exodus of another six million or so to a moving memoir of Black family migration.”—Arlie Russell Hochschild, New York Times Book Review

“Feels especially timely in its compelling argument about the important role Black workers play in shoring up American democracy.”—Nia T. Evans, Mother Jones

“With rich storytelling and innovative research, Black Folk refutes popular conceptions of the worker as universally white and male.”—Keisha N. Blain, Jacobin

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Blair LM Kelley is Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and the director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill She is the author of Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson.

Chrome Valley

Poems

Mahogany L. Browne

$17.99 paperback | Can. $23.99 • CQ 48 Territory W • ISBN 9781324095637 • 5½ x 8¼ 160 Pages • POETRY

“A deeply felt and kaleidoscopic display of skill, compassion, innovation, and daring verve from one of our most dynamically talented and beloved poets.”―Ocean Vuong

Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley “dives deep into the experience of Black girlhood and womanhood in America” (Emma Specter, Vogue). Embodying the pleasures and pangs of young romance, the complex yearnings of female friendship, and the sturdy, fierce love of motherhood, the characters in Chrome Valley grapple with legacies of inherited trauma—but also revel in the beauty of the undaunted self-determination passed down between Black women. “Generous and expansive” (Nick Ripatrazone, Millions), Chrome Valley solidifies Browne as one of the most significant poetic voices of our time.

Named one of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 and Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of the Year

“A kingdom of touchable joys.”—Hanif Abdurraqib

“Raging and bountiful and humming with irresistible music, this is a powerful new collection from a prolific cross-genre writer.”—Laura Sackton, BuzzFeed News

“This book is fire with a table of contents.”—Willie Perdomo

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Mahogany L. Browne is a Kennedy Center Next 50 Fellow, inaugural poet in residence at Lincoln Center, and cofounder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. She is the author of inyl Moon, Chlorine Sky, Woke Baby, and Black Girl Magic She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The Deadline

Essays

Jill Lepore

$23.99 paperback | Can. $31.99 • CQ 18 Territory M • ISBN 9781324095613 • 6¼ x 9¼ 12 images • 640 Pages • HISTORY

A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its finest.

Few, if any, historians have brought such insight and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range, brought a transporting freshness and literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analyses. “Dizzying, entertaining, and urgent” (Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times), The Deadline offers a prismatic portrait of our techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented—but armed—aimlessness. Echoing Gore Vidal’s United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline “emerges as a riveting survey of America, a vital reminder that ‘history isn’t a pledge, it’s an argument’” (Sloane Crosley, New York Times Book Review).

“[The Deadline] brings wit, clarity, and necessary perspective to the biggest issues of today.”—Cady Lang, Time

“Jill Lepore is America’s greatest living essayist. . . . [These essays] form a stunning mosaic of contemporary America and an alternative annal of our times.”—Fintan O’Toole

• Best of the Year: New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Review of Books

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Jill Lepore is the David Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, her many books include the international bestseller These Truths and If Then, which was longlisted for the National Book Award.

The Pole

A Novel J. M. Coetzee

$17.99 paperback | Can. • CQ 48 Territory B • ISBN 9781324095668 • 5½ x 8¼ 176 Pages • FICTION

From perhaps “one of [our] last great novelists” (Pankaj Mishra, Nation), a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of relationships.

A “masterclass” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) in the style of his finest novels, J. M. Coetzee’s The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, “extravagantly white-haired” Polish pianist who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz—a younger, married woman—is initially unimpressed by Witold, she soon finds herself ineluctably swept into his world, and a power struggle emerges. “Quick, deft, stimulating, stripped-down but unexpectedly moving,” The Pole is “a return to form by a writer who can make music from the fewest possible notes” (Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal).

“With The Pole, Coetzee muddies the waters of national purity with his trademark clarity.”—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker

“Haunting and surreptitiously heartfelt. . . . [A]s soon as I completed it, I wanted to go back and read the whole elliptical thing again.”—Pico Iyer, AirMail

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J. M. Coetzee is the author of more than twenty books, including The Life and Times of Michael K, for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983, and Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, a memoir With Disgrace, Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize twice. In 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

America Last

The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators

Jacob Heilbrunn

$18.99 paperback | Can. $24.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324095675 • 5½ x 8¼ 9 black-and-white illustrations • 264 Pages • POLITICAL SCIENCE

A leading observer of the Right explains the long, disturbing history behind its dictator worship.

In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators— though a striking and seemingly inexplicable fact of our current moment—is not a new phenomenon. As Heilbrunn argues, the Right is drawn to what it perceives as the impressive strength of foreign dictators, precisely because it sees them as models of how to fight against liberalism and progressivism domestically. America Last is a guide for the perplexed, identifying and tracing a persuasion that has animated conservative politics for a century now, showing that dictator worship is an unignorable tradition within modern American conservatism—and what it means for us today

“America Last is a tour de force of historical investigation written with the verve of a first-rate political thriller.”—Sam Tanenhaus, author of The Death of Conservatism

“This is history as revelation, and unfortunately it is all too relevant to understanding America's present-day politics.”—Susan Glasser, coauthor of The Divider

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Jacob Heilbrunn is the editor of the National Interest and nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is the author of They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons and lives in Washington, DC

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Germany 1923

Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

Volker Ullrich, Translated by Jefferson Chase

$23.99 paperback | Can. $31.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324095651 • 5½ x 8¼ 24 illustrations • 448 Pages • HISTORY

“A warning from the past with lessons still apposite today.”―Charles Emerson, Financial Times

The year 1923 in Germany was defined by hyperinflation, a political system on the verge of collapse, and separatist movements that threatened the country’s territorial integrity. Most significantly, Adolf Hitler launched his infamous Beer Hall Putsch in Munich—a failed coup that nonetheless drew international attention and demonstrated the Nazis’ ruthless determination to seize power. People at the time found it almost miraculous that the Weimar Republic—the first German democracy—was able to survive, though sharper-eyed observers saw that the dark currents unleashed could lead to much worse. Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, and poems, award-winning historian Volker Ullrich “shows that the psychological and political effects of hyperinflation were profound” (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times), and suggests parallels between that crisis and our own today.

“An exemplary, sober book about an intoxicating time. . . . Formidable.”—Norman Ohler, New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

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Volker Ullrich is a German historian and the award-winning author of Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich. He lives in Germany.

Jefferson Chase has translated works by Thomas Mann and Wolfgang Schivelbusch, among others. He lives in Berlin.

Knitting with Dog Hair

Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know and Love Than from a Sheep You'll Never Meet Kendall Crolius

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50 black-and-white illustrations • 112 Pages • CRAFTS & HOBBIES

The beloved American classic returns with this brand-new edition, teaching readers to spin and knit clothing out of dog hair—now with new dog breeds!

No, it’s not a joke! First published in 1994, Knitting With Dog Hair taught a generation of readers how to gather, spin, and knit dog hair into wearable garments of all kinds, from Malamute mittens to Collie caps. Defying incredulity, the book became a cult sensation, featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and even People This thirtieth-anniversary edition does more than just shed light on what had previously been an obscure practice: in expanded form, it provides tip-filled, easy-touse advice on:

How to harvest, clean, and store your pooch’s fur

How to modify your patterns to accommodate pet-spun yarn.

How to find experienced pet-hair spinners.

With “an extensive catalogue raisonne of the various breeds” (New York Times) and several handy patterns, this illustrated guide is the creative answer to that vexing shedding problem. As the saying goes, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks—but you can knit its hair

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Kendall Crolius, a Princeton graduate, has been spinning yarn from her pets' hair and knitting clothes with it for most of her life. She lives in Chautauqua, New York.

MCU

The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards

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“Robinson, Gonzales and Edwards set out to write ‘the most thorough, authoritative history of Marvel Studios to date,’ and that is exactly what they have done.”―Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post

The rise of Marvel Studios may seem inevitable in retrospect, yet in MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards demonstrate that it was anything but. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with producers, directors, writers, and others, they track the key decisions and breakthroughs that transformed an independent studio with shaky financing into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut. If the disappointments of 2023 are any indication, Marvel’s reign may not last forever, though. In new material included in this edition, the authors bring the story into the present, showing how the magic of the early Marvel movies can be recaptured.

“[MCU’s] admiration for Marvel movies works in its favor, freeing the writers to skip straight to the gossip, like the relative who pulls you aside at Thanksgiving to whisper about your cousin’s divorce.”―Amy Nicholson, New York Times

“Readers are sure to learn something new on every page. . . . MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios belongs on every Marvel fan’s bookshelf.”―Carlos Freytes, Agents of Fandom

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Joanna Robinson is a writer and podcaster at the Ringer. She lives in Oakland, California. Dave Gonzales is a graphics producer, animation director, and popular podcaster. He lives in Denver, Colorado. Gavin Edwards is the New York Times–best-selling author of thirteen books, including The Tao of Bill Murray. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Before the Movement

The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Dylan C. Penningroth

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“A deeply researched and counterintuitive history.”―Matthew F. Delmont, Washington Post

Dylan C. Penningroth’s Before the Movement is a new history of civil rights that forces us to reconsider our most basic assumptions about Black history itself. Interweaving his own family history with long-forgotten documents found in county courthouse basements, Penningroth reveals how African Americans thought about, talked about, and used the law long before the famous marches of the 1960s. In a world that denied their constitutional rights, Black people built lives for themselves through the “rights of everyday use.” Before the Movement recovers a rich vision of Black life—a vision allied with, yet distinct from, the freedom struggle.

“Revolutionary. . . . Penningroth’s astute storytelling skills transfix courthouse documents into three-dimensional narratives of love, loss, and everyday Black life.”— Mimi Borders, Chicago Review of Books

“[A] cogently subversive book. . . . Mr. Penningroth’s powerful thesis may seem strikingly counterintuitive, but his detailed exposition is convincing.”—David J. Garrow, Wall Street Journal

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Dylan C. Penningroth is a professor of law and history at the University of California, Berkeley. A MacArthur Prize fellow and author of The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South, he lives in Kensington, California.

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The Handover

How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

David Runciman

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“Witty and refined. . . . Runciman’s point is that the alliance between even a democratic government and a safe-ish A.I. could derail civilization.”—Gideon LewisKraus, The New Yorker

Countless books and articles have been written about the arrival of artificial intelligence, but according to political philosopher David Runciman, we’ve been living with AI for 300 years—because corporations and states are robots, too. Starting in the seventeenth century, states and corporations—from the United States and the United Kingdom to multinational technology, commerce, oil, and gas conglomerates—have taken over the planet. In The Handover, Runciman explains our current situation through the history of these “artificial agents” that we created to rescue us from our all-too-human limitations―and demonstrates what this radical new view of our recent past means for our collective future.

“Ingenious. . . . [A] well-informed and provocative read about the essence of political power.”―John Thornhill, Financial Times

“Amid a headlong international panic about a looming robot insurrection, David Runciman offers a searching history of earlier takeovers by other artificial creatures of our own making―states and corporations―and a stirring call for a new and fortified commitment to all that is human.”―Jill Lepore, author of These Truths

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David Runciman is professor of politics at Cambridge University. He is the author of seven previous books, including The Confidence Trap and How Democracy Ends. He lives in Cambridge, UK

A Madman's Will

John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom Gregory May

$22.99 paperback | Can. $29.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324095620 • 5½ x 8¼ 20 illustrations • 416 Pages • HISTORY

The untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally comes to light in this “detailed history” (The New Yorker

Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia congressman John Randolph. So famous is the case that Ta-Nehisi Coates has used it to condemn Randolph’s cousin, Thomas Jefferson, for failing to free his own slaves. Historian Gregory May now reveals a more surprising story, showing how madness and scandal shaped Randolph’s wildly shifting attitudes toward his slaves—and how endemic prejudice in the North ultimately deprived the freedmen of the land Randolph had promised them.

“Mystery drives . . . May’s enlightening, suspenseful book.”—David Reynolds, Wall Street Journal

“Cogently reveals how white supremacy . . . permeated the nation, depicting a culture of fear and resentment around free Black settlement. . . . May shows how such deprivations have lasting, generational consequences, illuminating inequities that persist to this day.”—Ilyon

Woo, New York Times Book Review

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Gregory May is the author of Jefferson's Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt. He practiced law in Washington, DC, and New York for thirty years, and now lives in Virginia

Emperor of Rome

Ruling the Ancient World

Mary Beard

$24.99 paperback | Can. $33.99 • CQ 24 Territory C • ISBN 9781324095606 • 5½ x 8¼ 160 images, 16 page color insert • 512 Pages • HISTORY

“The world’s most famous classicist” (Guardian) returns with a sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors.

At once a “masterly group portrait [and] an invitation to think skeptically but not contemptuously of a familiar civilization” (Kyle Harper, Wall Street Journal), Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome takes us through the nearly three centuries—and thirty emperors—that separate Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). But this is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven—offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

“As a writer, Beard is so appealing and approachable that even the recalcitrant reader who previously gave not a single thought to the Roman Empire will warm to her subject.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times

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Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.