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  • Old Havana, February 2017. Photo: Pedro Szekely. via Flickr.

    Which Way for Cuba?

    After Raúl Castro's expansion of pro-market policies, and on the eve of the transfer of presidential power, many Cubans are gloomy about the future of the country. 

  • Verso Autumn 2018 Catalogue

    Verso Autumn 2018 Catalogue

    Highlights and preview extracts from our Autumn 2018 catalogue! Featuring new books from Mike Davis, Jenny Hval, Laboria Cuboniks, John McDonnell and much more.

  • Frantz Fanon in Algiers

    Frantz Fanon in Algiers

    “Non, non, non: stay upright on your own two feet and keep moving forward to goals of your own," said Frantz Fanon to Elaine Mokhtefi in Algiers.

  • We Built the Wall

    We Built the Wall

    U.S. immigration policy during the Trump presidency and in the years beyond could be outrageous and appalling, but it’s not new.

  • A shop in Hong Kong raided for selling pirated cassette tapes, 1974.

    Global Corporations and "World Music"

    The chronic crisis of the record industry is compounded by a constant paradox, apparently inherent in the technology of reproduction, by which music is turned into a commodity only to see it escape.

  • Members of the NYPD Warrants Squad on duty, June 2013.

    Superpredators: Police on the Hunt

    Police often speak of themselves as hunters. This might best be understood as an honest admission of what they actually do: hunt, capture, cage, and often kill those subjects marked as fugitive, unruly, impolite.

  • The Italian Malaise

    The Italian Malaise

    The recent election signaled a decisive shift in Italian politics, marking the collapse of the parties that have ruled Italy for the past 25 years. In this interview, conducted by Lewis Bassett, David Broder surveys the state of Italian politics in the four weeks since the election, and asks where next for Italian politics.