Archive of Aesthetics and Politics

Challenge yourself with new discoveries in our Radical Thinkers series.

Find the perfect book: all priced at £8 or below! We bring you a selection of highlights: from bestsellers now available in paperback, through to some Verso classics.

All our Philosophy student reading.

Our Critical Theory reading for the academic year ahead.

Our art and aesthetics reading for the academic year ahead.

A definitive list of books that you need to read.

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.

A collection of aphorisms on music written by Theodor Adorno between 1927 and 1951.
 

To mark the publication of Stuart Jeffries' Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School we're publishing excerpts and pieces related to Frankfurt School thinkers. Grand Hotel Abyss is now out in paperback and 30% off.

"A poem about drowning refugees, those who drown in view, in view of the shore, in view of others, speaks across times to tell us that it is not enough to learn to read, to learn to see – but also to act."—Esther Leslie on how Bertolt Brecht and War Primer teaches us how to read and how to act.