Verso Books: 696 books
Riot. Strike. Riot
The New Era of Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection
Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar...
The Seasons of Trouble
Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict, and...
Modernism in the Streets
A Life and Times in Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker
Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a...
Out of the Wreckage
A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A thrilling new route to a better society
A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights...
The Viceroys
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel follows three generations of the aristocratic Uzeda family as it struggles to hold on to power in the face of the cataclysmic changes rocking Sicily. As Garibaldi’s triumphs...
Direct Action
Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now
As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights...
In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged...
The Impostor
BHL in Wonderland
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls “the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy,” easily the best-known “thinker” under sixty in France? “It would,” he continues, “be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards of taste and intelligence than the...
Lenin 2017
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, iek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today
V. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin’s original...
The Communist Manifesto
A Modern Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word “capitalism” itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis...
A World to Win
The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birth
In this essential new biography—the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx—Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent passages...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses particularly on the work of Lukács, Korsch...
The Hidden God
A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A new edition of a major philosophical work
This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept...
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
The underlying premise of the book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point. Its four riders of the apocalypse are the ecological crisis, the consequences of the biogenetic revolution, the imbalances within the system itself (problems with intellectual...