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January 2023 Sale! 60% Off Select Titles

New Year, Same Problems, New Verso Books Sale. Please enjoy 60% off the selected titles!

Verso Book Club: January, February, March

Join the Verso Book Club and get ALL of our new ebooks every month as well as one or more new books in the mail.

Fighting in a World on Fire: A letter from the Editor

"This is an experiment for Verso"  – Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Director.

They Call It Love: A letter from the Editor

"Reading and editing this book changed the way I think about work, emotion, friendship, and gender, perhaps that will give you an idea of why you should." – Rosie Warren, Editor.

Marx’s Literary Style: A letter from the Editor

"It’s so satisfying when an email like that arrives, like a thirty-year burden of guilt and shame at not having published this book in English being thrown off in a few lines" – Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Director.

Must-read Verso Blogs

Essential essays for understanding the past year!

Books

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They Call It Love
by Alva Gotby
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Arid Empire
by Natalie Koch
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Ruling the Void
by Peter Mair
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Napoleon’s Cursed War
by Ronald Fraser
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Fighting in a World on Fire
by Andreas Malm
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Marx’s Literary Style
by Ludovico Silva
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Authors

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Vivian Gornick

“Gornick’s language is so fresh and so blunt; it’s a quintessentially American voice, and a beautiful one.” – Dwight Garner, New York Times

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Judith Butler

“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today.” – Cornel West

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Angela Y. Davis
“For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” – James Baldwin
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Tariq Ali

“Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist.” — Observer

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Walter Rodney

“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could have not been more wrong.” – Angela Davis

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Ellen Meiksins Wood
“Meiksins Wood is a rare breed-an academic with the soul of a storyteller.” —Morning Star

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