Verso: 737 books
Resources of Hope
Culture, Democracy, Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory
Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain’s foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of...
Stone Men
The Palestinians Who Built Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The story of Palestine’s stonemasons and the building of Israel
“They demolish our houses while we build theirs.”
This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” using some...
by Daniel Barenboim
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
In this eloquent book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in our everyday lives. While we may sometimes think of personal, social and political issues as existing independently of each other, Barenboim shows how...
Fear of Mirrors
A Fall-of-Communism Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The story of a family whose life mirrors the rise and fall of the Soviet Union
With the fall of Communism, East German dissident Vlady Meyer’s life begins to fall apart. As the German nation unifies, his wife splits up with him. He loses his university job now that the times have turned against...
by Edward Said, Jacqueline Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Banned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said’s final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said’s abiding interest in the psychoanalyst’s work to examine Freud’s assumption that Moses was an Egyptian and from there explore the limits...
Lavil
Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis
Seven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, all but ignored by the international community. At the center of this crisis is Lavil—“The...
Deport, Deprive, Extradite
21st Century State Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The extradition of terror suspects reveals the worst features of the security state
In 2012 five Muslim men—Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan, Khalid al-Fawwaz, Adel Abdul Bary, and Abu Hamza—were extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism-related charges. Fahad Hashmi was deported a few...
The Russian Revolution
A View from the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy
In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the...
In Broad Daylight
Movies and Spectators After the Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics,...
Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality
A Critique of Political Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts
Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that...
by Sheila Rowbotham
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women’s oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism, this foundational text shows how the roles women adopt within the capitalist economy have shaped ideas about family and sexuality. Examining feminist consciousness...
Narcoland
The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The product of five years’ investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to its author, Anabel Hernández, Narcoland has been a publishing and political sensation...
The Muslims Are Coming!
Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Powerful critique of UK and US surveillance and repression of Muslims and prosecution of homegrown terrorism
The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in...
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Written by the pioneering scientist, theorist and activist J. D. Bernal, this futuristic essay explores the radical changes to human bodies and intelligence that science may bring about, and suggests the impact of these developments on society. Bernal presents a far-reaching vision of the future that...