The Year in 10 Books | 2024
In the era of polycrisis, these books will help you understand the past tumultuous year, and how to fight in the face of despair.
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Overshoot: Andreas Malm & Wim Carton
Andreas Malm and Wim Carton join Eleanor Penny to discuss climate models, resource conflicts, and the false promise of carbon capture.
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Faith, or The Stories We Tell
If we do not believe we can win, we will not win. How can we learn from the past in order to invent a new concept of political faith to guide us in today’s pessimistic world? -
Roughage
“She wanted to dig a square hole in the dark mud, lie down in it, and wait for someone to come along and cover her up. Thank you, she would say, if they did.”
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Harris lost because of Gas, Groceries, and Gaza. But the underlying reason was Ukraine
This election was both "It's the economy stupid," and a foreign policy election. Arun Gupta reflects on the result of the US presidential election. -
How Did We Get Here Again?
Donald Trump has been elected (again). These are key books for understanding how we got here. -
New Left Review 149, out now.
As we enter the fevered last days before the US presidential election, Anton Jäger analyses the pathologies of American political culture, where—as Engels once put it—two great gangs of political speculators battle for power; where a new hyper-politicization has replaced the quiescence of the Clinton–Bush years, while the determination of US policies remains beyond popular reach. -
Essential Reading for the 2024 U.S. Election
Browse a selection of Verso books covering this election's most pressing issues. -
Verso Specials: Enzo Traverso
Enzo Traverso on the global far right, the Frankfurt School, left wing melancholia, and Israel's war against Gaza. -
Introducing the Verso Gift Card
Share radical ideas with a Verso Gift Card.
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Neurodiversity as a radical social movement
Jodie Hare assesses how much of the earliest work on autism, neurodivergence and disability began from a position of prejudice and fear.
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Steve Bell walks with the zombies
To celebrate the publication of If…Stands Up, the award-winning former Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell writes about his first encounters with Margaret Thatcher and other horrors.
