Verso Books: 696 books
Close to the Edge
In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
“Fernandes brilliantly captures the moment when a global generation curved toward a unifying language and culture and found something that was both much more and much less than what it was searching for. Close to the Edge is a beautifully told tale of the collective and the personal, the cultural...
Lockdown High
When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In the dozen years since the Columbine High School shootings, school violence has fallen steadily. Yet, as Annette Fuentes visits schools across America she finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, teachers carrying guns,...
by Michele Barrett, Mary McIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to the ideas of Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh. The Anti-social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute...
News for All the People
The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed...
by Samir Kassir
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In the years before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir became one of Lebanon’s foremost public intellectuals, a fearless critic of tyranny and an inspiring advocate of democracy. In Being Arab, his last book, he calls on the peoples of the Middle East to reject both Western double standards...
Revolution at the Gates
Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn’t he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century?
Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament...
Absolute Recoil
Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj iek’s argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work....
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
5 Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal ideology, argues Slavoj iek. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? turns a specious rhetorical strategy on its head to identify a network of family resemblances...
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. iek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert...
Fire and Blood
The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes
Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on...
The End of the French Intellectual
From Zola to Houellebecq
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia
The best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the troublesome figure of the French intellectual. Revered throughout the Francophile world, France’s tradition of public...
by R. H. Tawney
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism
In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought on...
City of Quartz
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2006
A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without...
Yemen in Crisis
Road to War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Expert analysis of Yemen's social and political crisis, with profound implications for the fate of the Arab World
The democratic promise of the 2011 Arab Spring has unraveled in Yemen, triggering a disastrous crisis of civil war, famine, militarization, and governmental collapse with serious...