Verso Books: 696 books
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister
Life and Death in Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist
Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly inexplicable...
The Art of Cloning
Creative Production During China's Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity
In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were “blue ants under the red flag,” dressing identically and even moving in concert like robots. When the Cultural Revolution officially...
Making Trouble
Life and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, raging in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the “new,” when the ruling orthodoxy daily disparages everything associated with the “old”? Delving into her own life and those who left their mark on it, Lynne Segal journeys...
by Mahmoud Darwish
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger
Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile....
Beyond the Pale
White Women, Racism, and History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a political movement within racist societies. Dissecting the different meanings of femininity and womanhood, Beyond the Pale examines the...
Bluebeard's Chamber
Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann’s creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann’s fiction, and for...
by David Cooper, Stokely Carmichael, R.D. Laing
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades
The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists,...
What Goes Up
The Right and Wrongs to the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary city
Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money,...
A New Kind of Bleak
Journeys through Urban Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement...
Feminism
A Bad Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2021
A radical examination of feminism’s place in our cultural memory
How did we come to represent the history of feminism in terms of waves and generations? What are the effects of such powerful metaphors? In Feminism: A Bad Memory? Griselda Pollock analyses the cultural memory of feminism through...
Hollow Land
Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation
This new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over...
False Choices
The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, it’s thought, would be an achievement for all women everywhere, a...
Explore Everything
Place-Hacking the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Plotting adventures from London, Paris, Eastern Europe, Detroit, Chicago and Las vegas, uncovering the tunnels below the city as well as scaling the highest skyscrapers, Bradley Garrett has evaded urban security in order to experience the city in new ways beyond the conventional boundaries of everyday...
Vertical
The City from Satellites to Bunkers
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet
Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that...