Archive of Aesthetics and Politics

Our Cultural and Literary Theory reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

Must-read Verso classics for all students.

How should we conceive the digital economy?

From across 50 years of publishing at Verso: all 40% off until the end of September.

A collection of literary critic, philosopher and political theorist Fredric Jameson's best books.

Publishing for our 50th anniversary.

Benjamin, Brecht, and Adorno, each in their own way, try to square their admiration for the early work of Georg Lukács with his later work, after his reputation gained official authority and was swallowed up by the ambience of the Comintern.

Find the perfect book: all $13 or below! We bring you a selection of highlights: from bestsellers now available in paperback to some Verso classics.

Was Walter Benjamin a refugee or a migrant? Would he be considered as one or the other today? Is this what it means to actualise, to make contemporary, to bring Walter Benjamin into the Now?

On the anniversary of Walter Benjamin's birth, we republish Esther Leslie's Walter Benjamin: The Refugee and Migrant.

From Verso's own list as well as from the shelves of some other great publishers, a selection of key Marxist art and literary theory titles to mark the bicentenary of Marx's birth – including John Berger's proposal for 'revolutionary art', Susan Sontag's essay 'Notes on Camp', Michele Wallace's virtuosic Invisibility Blues and much more.