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29/12/2025

Support radical independent publishing while completing your New Year's resolution.

For a limited time, we're offering 20% off annual Book Club memberships when you use promo code: VBC-NEW-YEAR.

All Book Club members receive every new ebook we publish, 50% off all books site-wide, and exclusive access to our monthly reading group. Comrade and Partisan tier members also receive print books each month. Past reading group guests include Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, Andreas Malm, and more!

Support radical independent publishing while completing your New Year's resolution. For a limited time, we're offering 20% off annual Book Club memberships when you use promo code: VBC-NEW-YEAR. Click here for more information on the different Verso Book Club membership tiers. All Book Club members....

27/12/2025

Kate Evans explores Jane Austen’s political point of view.

Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now!

24/12/2025

Kate Evans describes the threads that connect Empire to Jane Austen’s life and work. Watch the full interview on YouTube!

Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now.

23/12/2025

We've got options for last minute gift giving!

Our digital products deliver immediately (or can be scheduled) and now come with a Bonus Gift Card sent directly to you – only during the Verso End of Year Sale!

22/12/2025

Of all the books we've read this year, these are our favorites.

See the 2025 Verso staff picks!

Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden John B Calhoun was an American scientist hired by the American Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of overcrowding on rats. In a vast barn he devised increasingly elabo...

22/12/2025

What could Your Party learn from Zohran Mandani’s win in New York?

Your Party: The Return of the Left by Oliver Eagleton is out now!

19/12/2025

In his short life, Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. His scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale.

All his books are part of our End of Year Sale - up to 50% off!

Walter Rodney described himself as a guerrilla intellectual, committed to studying the concrete realities of the working class. He believed in the centrality of education in revolutionary struggle and, alongside his work as a professor, he wrote two children’s books that challenged racial division...

18/12/2025

Now available for preorder: The Alibi of Capital by Timothy Mitchell

Stealing the future and concealing the theft – capitalism’s method, as examined by the author of the acclaimed Carbon Democracy

Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the future.The Alibi of Capital explain...

18/12/2025

The great historian Arno Mayer passed away two years ago today.

In 2024, Mathias Fuelling wrote about Mayer's sustained intellectual legacy.

"Reading Mayer, one sees that he was often ahead of the curve, presaging arguments and framings years or even decades before they became widely accepted."

Arno J. Mayer was the last of the great Jewish American intellectuals who were refugees and exiles from fascism in Europe. His passing last December represents an important marker in modern intellectual history, an end point from which to look back and take stock, as well as to look forward. His lif...

18/12/2025

Kate Evans explores the continuous and important references to women working in Jane Austen’s novels. Watch the full interview, linked in our bio.

Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now!

16/12/2025

On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Kate Evans presents a bold reimagining of the life of the much-lover writer.

Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans is out now: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3236-patchwork?utm_source=youtube&utm_mediu...

16/12/2025

Who was the real Jane Austen behind the twee image we so often see? Kate Evans threads together Austen’s own words to tell her story.

Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now!

Watch the full interview with Kate through the link in bio.