Verso
Spring 2008

Commie Girl in
the O.C.

Rebecca Schoenkopf

A People’s History of the World
Chris Harman

In Defense of
Lost Causes

Slavoj Zizek

Politics Noir
Gary Phillips, ed.



Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope (revised pbk edition)
by Tariq Ali

Casualty Figures
by Michèle Barrett

Walter Benjamin’s Archive: Images, Texts, Signs

My Grandmother: A Memoir
by Fethiye Çetin

Napoleon’s Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish
Peninsular War

by Ronald Fraser

Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
by Peter Hallward




The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification
by Christopher Hitchens (new edition)


Revolutionary Horizons: Popular Struggle in Bolivia
by Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson


Basrayatha: The Story of a City
by Muhammad Khudayyir

Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto
by Max Lane

The Poulantzas Reader
by Nikos Poulantzas / edited by James Martin

Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law
by Alain Supiot



New Series of Radical Thinkers Now Available
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Verso Events

Mike Marqusee, speaking on If I Am Not for Myself: Confessions of an Anti-Zionist Jew

May 14, 7 pm
London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Place
London WC1A


Write to the City: A Writers' Slam on Gentrification
with Gary Phillips, MC
and Sara Paretsky, Rick Dakan, Larry Fondation, Denise Hamilton, Gar Anthony Haywood, Nina Revoyr, Luis Rodriguez, Jervey Tervalon, Robert Ward
Music by DJ Pay Ray

Thursday, May 29, 2008, 8 pm
Gallery g727
727 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014


Tom Engelhardt, editor of The World According to Tomdispatch
in conversation with Michael Schwartz

June 11, 2008, 7 pm
Book Culture
536 West 112th Street
New York, NY 10025


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