Verso Books: 696 books
The Heart of the Race
Black Women's Lives in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain
The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting their day-to-day...
A Massacre in Mexico
The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican students
On September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were nowhere...
Latinx
The New Force in American Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics
“Latinx” (pronounced “La-teen-ex”) is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States, accounting for 17 percent of the country. Over 58 million Americans belong to...
by Ernesto Laclau
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A philosophical and political exploration of the construction of popular identities
In this highly original and influential work, Ernesto Laclau focuses on the construction of popular identities and how “the people” emerge as a collective actor. Skilfully combining theoretical analysis...
Everything to Nothing
The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The poets’ Great War: violence, revolution and modernism
The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world.
This tumult, sometimes referred to as ‘the literary war’, saw an extraordinary...
Dead Children Playing
A Picture Book
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Stanley Donwood and the enigmatic Dr Tchock are the elusive duo responsible for Radiohead’s artwork. Containing paintings they have produced in the last decade, this book alsocontains a cornucopia of never-before-seen artwork. Featuring the apocalyptic scenes of the OK Computer album, the startling,...
Opening the Gates
The Lip Affair, 1968-1981
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labor struggles after May 1968
In 1973, faced with massive layoffs, workers at the legendary Lip watch firm in Besançon, France, occupied their factory to demand that no one lose their job. They seized watches and watch parts,...
by Andrea Long Chu
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”
So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and...
Germany's Hidden Crisis
Social Decline in the Heart of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
How neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany
Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university....
Victors' Justice
From Nuremberg to Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
International tribunals are shown to be little more than a tool of Western imperialism
Victors' Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, juridical precision and philosophical analysis. Zolo's key...
Outcast London
A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of “outcast London.” Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and...
The View From The Train
Cities And Other Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
“Robinson believed that, if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the molecular basis of historical events, and in this way he hoped to see into the future.”
In his sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places...
by Nancy Folbre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist
In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research,...
The Conservation Revolution
Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
An anti-capitalist manifesto for conservation
Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the...