Verso Books: 696 books
Disaster Capitalism
Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disaster
Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism—the hidden world of privatized...
by Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830, from one of the greatest historians of our age. For generation upon generation, the English farm laborer lived in poverty and degradation. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, however, new forces came into play—and...
The Zad and NoTAV
Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Vivid account and reflection on two struggles that are at the heart of the contestation of neoliberal technocracy and the state
At a time of ever more accelerated and expanded development of natural and agricultural territory, in the aim of making targeted areas more profitable and controllable,...
If I Am Not For Myself
Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author’s upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in...
Redemption Song
Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A classic book that traces Muhammad Ali’s political development in the sixties
When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali was not only a boxer but a remarkable political figure in a decade...
The S Word
A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
A few months before the 2010 midterms, Newt Gingrich described the socialist infiltration of American government and media as “even more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists.” John Nichols offers an unapologetic retort to the return of red-baiting in American political life—arguing...
My Grandmother
An Armenian-Turkish Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Çetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.
Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother’s name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a Christian Armenian. Most of the men...
Comradely Greetings
The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
”We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is used to hearing G flat.”
In an extraordinary...
Alt-America
The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States
Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious “alt-right”...
White Riot
Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity .
The Modernist Papers is a tour...
Film After Film
(Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema’s most...
The Ministry of Nostalgia
Consuming Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”?
In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a “make do and mend” aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed,...
by Raphael Samuel, Alison Light
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain
The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood...