Archive of Verso Books

Get your Verso tote bag and goodies at this Saturday 24th June's radical bookshop giveaway!

Verso presents a reading list of books that challenge and expose right-wing narratives about migrant workers and refugees.

Kate Evans discusses her new book Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, a work of visual reportage through the medium of comic-book storytelling—and makes a compelling case for the compassionate treatment of refugees and the free movement of peoples.

Last week marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, in which the Israeli military occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. In a strikingly illustrated essay for the Funambulist blog, Léopold Lambert reconstructs eleven crucial moments from the pivotal war.

Click here to read on.

A wide-ranging conversation between Perry Anderson and Pablo Iglesias, on Spain's past and present, and the role of Podemos, set in the larger European context. 

40% off all our Brecht reading until June 11

"I am a city still, but soon I shan’t be –

Where generations used to live and die

Before those deadly birds flew in to haunt me:

One thousand years to build. A fortnight to destroy."

Bertolt Brecht's War Primer is a terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II.

A climate crisis reading list featuring George Monbiot, Reece Jones, Jason Moore, Heather Rogers and more.

40% off all our books by Perry Anderson, including The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci, The H-Word and American Foreign Policy. Ends June 4 at midnight UTC.

Throughout May we've been marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution with new books from Tariq Ali and China Miéville, plus Weekend Reads looking at women in Russia before and after the Revolution, the Black Bolsheviks, and lots more. All our Russian Revolution reading is 50% off until May 28.

In this series of posts (Part I, Part II below, and Part III) we ask writers to respond to the Revolution and its importance today.