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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
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
Soldier Box

by Joe Glenton
A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan
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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

24/7

by Jonathan Crary
Capitalism’s colonization of every hour in the day
5 Days That Shook the World

by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
"In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest,...
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Abnormal

by Michel Foucault
Challenging all thought that came before him, Michel Foucault remains the essential philosopher of the modern world.
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The Absence of Myths

by Georges Bataille
One of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time, these essays comprise George Bataille's most incisive study of surrealism.
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An Act of State

by William F. Pepper
The definitive account of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Actuality of Communism

by Bruno Bosteels
A new salvo in Verso's burgeoning series on communism, after Badiou, Žižek and Groys.
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Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
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The Adventure of French Philosophy

by Alain Badiou
Over forty years of French philosophy through the eyes of its greatest living exponent.
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Adventures in Marxism

by Marshall Berman
“Marshall Berman is one of our liveliest and most generous interpreters of Marx.”—The Nation
Aesthetics and Politics

by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, et al.
The most remarkable aesthetic debates in European cultural history, with an afterword by Fredric Jameson.
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Afflicted Powers

by Iain A. Boal, T. J. Clark, et al.
Dissenting intellectuals analyze the collision of military neoliberalism with the politics of the spectacle.
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African and Caribbean Politics

by Manning Marable
Studying Ghana, Guyana and Grenada to discover the problems affecting democracy in the African diaspora.

Afrocentrism

by Stephen Howe
“Precise and courageous ... A landmark.”—Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times
After Diana

Edited by Mandy Merck

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the deepest mourning of the twentieth century. Two and a half billion people worldwide watched...
After the Party

by Andrew Feinstein
South Africa’s Watergate – widespread corruption at the highest levels of the ANC.
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Against Method

by Paul Feyerabend
Beyond Popper and Kuhn to an anarchist philosophy of science.

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