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Aisthesis

by Jacques Rancière
Rancière’s magnum opus on the aesthetic
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Che Wants to See You

by Ciro Bustos
Riveting memoir of revolution in South America by Che Guevara’s Argentine lieutenant
24/7

by Jonathan Crary
Capitalism’s colonization of every hour in the day
Soldier Box

by Joe Glenton
A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan
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The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut
Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier
Victor Serge

by Susan Weissman
The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker
Distant Reading

by Franco Moretti
The formation of an unorthodox literary critic
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The Bourgeois

by Franco Moretti
Who – and what – are the Bourgeois?
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To Sin Against Hope

by Alfredo Gutierrez

A moving life story from a leading voice in America’s immigrant rights struggle.
Anywhere or Not at All

by Peter Osborne
A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time
Against World Literature

by Emily Apter
On the problems of translation in literary study
A New Kind of Bleak

by Owen Hatherley
The urban state of the nation—from Olympic dreams to broken Britain
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Concept and Form
First systematic presentation and assessment of the groundbreaking journal Cahiers pour l’Analyse
Counterblasts
A series challenging the apologists of Empire and Capital.
Radical Thinkers
“A golden treasury of theory.”—Eric Banks, Bookforum
The Essential Žižek
The essential texts for understanding Žižek’s thought.
Verso World History
Classic works of global history, from the Ancient World to the present day.
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg
Bringing the contributions of this remarkable thinker and personality alive for new generations.
Pocket Communism
Rethinking communism for the twenty-first century.
Revolutions
Classic revolutionary writings set ablaze by today’s radical writers.
The Islam Quintet
"A richly woven tapestry that merits comparison with Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy."—Kirkus Reviews
Mapping Series

They Can't Represent Us!

by Dario Azzellini and Marina Sitrin
How the new global movements are putting forward a radical conception of democracy.
The Faith of the Faithless

by Simon Critchley
Investigation into the dangerous interdependence of politics and religion.
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The Idea of Israel

by Ilan Pappe
A major new history of Zionism and Israel, by the renowned author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Altai

by Wu Ming
Sweeping historical novel of espionage, betrayal and identity.
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Liberalism

by Domenico Losurdo
One of Europe's leading intellectual historians deconstructs liberalism's dark side.
On the Reproduction of Capitalism

by Louis Althusser

The first translation of Althusser’s key text on ideology
The New Way of the World

by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval
An acute analysis of neoliberalism
The Muslims Are Coming!

by Arun Kundnani
The first comprehensive critique of the War on Terror's new front—the specter of domestic terrorists

Tristano

by Nanni Balestrini

A love story with infinite possibilities
Representing Capital

by Fredric Jameson
Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the...
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A Civil War

by Claudio Pavone
The definitive account of the Italian resistance, viewed from the perspective of its protagonists.
Land Grabbing

by Stefano Liberti
A shocking exposé of how modern-day corporations and governments are raiding the Third World

Out of Time

by Lynne Segal

A profound and sympathetic investigation of ageing, in life and literature

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The Indian Ideology

by Perry Anderson
An analysis of the failings of the Indian Republic
The View from the Train

by Patrick Keiller
Essays by the iconic British filmmaker on the relationship between film, cities and landscape
Profiting Without Producing

by Costas Lapavitsas
Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there...

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