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09/10/2025

The celebrate the publication of their new book, The Long Heat, authors Wim Carton and Andreas Malm have curated a list of their favorite Verso titles.

Save 30% on any of the selected titles with the purchase of The Long Heat!

The celebrate the publication of their new book, The Long Heat, authors Wim Carton and Andreas Malm have curated a list of Verso titles. Save 30% on any of the selected titles with the purchase of The Long Heat. [book-strip index="1"] Wim Carton [book-strip index="2"] Andreas Malm [book-strip index=...

08/10/2025

In honor of David Harvey's 90th birthday this month, we're publishing a series of short essays focussed on the major books of Harvey's oeuvre. Here, Helga Leitner revisits Harvey's second book, Social Justice and the City (1973).

It is 1973, and Social Justice and the City had just been published by Edward Arnold in London. I was a student at the University of Vienna in the Geography and Urban Planning program my fellow students and I were reading David Harvey’s Explanation in Geography (1969) alongside Dietrich Bartels’...

07/10/2025

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5078-palestinian-solidarity-reading-list

07/10/2025

Out today - The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state, now published with a new preface

Ilan Pappe’s pioneering work, first published in 2014, is a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state. Divorced from material and political realities, blind to the violent occupation of Palestine, Israel as an idea has been commodified and marketed across the Western ...

07/10/2025

Out today - Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

This is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. These works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people.

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land, and their future.Ahmed Alnaouq recou...

05/10/2025

"David’s first book, Explanation in Geography, was a revolutionary tract."

In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Eric Sheppard takes us through Harvey's groundbreaking first book Explanation in Geography (1969).

David’s first book, Explanation in Geography, was a revolutionary tract. I came across it after enrolling in Geography at Bristol in 1969. Whereas Geography had largely practiced naive empiricism Bristol was propagating a new (scientific) geography and saw the old geography as a hindrance, making ...

04/10/2025

Books on the history of psychoanalytic thought, the failures of mainstream psychotherapy, and how to find your radical self.

How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times by Stephen Frosh is a bold and necessary guide to finding your radical self in difficult times. Drawing on thinkers such as Freud, Winnicott and Klein, Frosh argues that we must look to what connects us. Authenticity depends on the quality of our...

03/10/2025

John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. We are proud to be reissuing his classic works including a tribute to the potential of political art, an investigation of the fate of migrant workers, and a story of love and resistance.

“John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things until we see what we thought wasn’t there. But above all, he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master.” — Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the m...

02/10/2025

Three new books have entered our Essential John Berger series!

ART AND REVOLUTION
A SEVENTH MAN
FROM A TO X

"Any book by John Berger is an event." – Times Literary Supplement

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4938-john-berger-bookshelf

02/10/2025

Sebastian Budgen returns to PTO to talk about the political crisis in France where Emmanuel Macron has appointed his third prime minister in a year.

Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/10/2025 · 46m

01/10/2025

This month, in honour of David Harvey's 90th birthday, we're publishing a series of short essays on David's unparalleled contribution on urban geography, anthropology and economics.

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David Harvey's ninetieth birthday, we're publishing a series of short essays on David's unparalleled contrib...

01/10/2025

On Saturday, 4 October, join Verso for a discussion on China's evolving position on the world stage between Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, and Rebecca Karl, chaired by Tariq Ali.

Please join us for a discussion on the global future of China, with Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, and Rebecca Karl, chaired by Tariq Ali.