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Gothic writing is about the return of the repressed, the emergence of the uncanny, the haunting of those who have been wronged. With today’s cresting wave of feminist rage and feminist desire, the gothic banshee is back, and she is writing. The madwomen are coming out of the attic and the witches are among us—we ignore them at our peril. Happy Halloween reading from Verso!

This October, Verso is hosting a roundtable on Silvia Federici’s incantatory and incendiary Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (2004), inviting reflections from activists, writers, and scholars to discuss the provocations of Federici’s arguments on capitalism and colonialism, bodies and reproduction, race and slavery—and the powerful figure of the witch.

50% off Fall Fiction

A story about a dog-life creature who takes on all too human qualities, from Eka Kurniawan's short story collection Kitchen Curse, translated from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao.

How to design an Adorno book? An interview with designer Neil Donnelly on his inspiration for the cover of The Authoritarian Personality.

Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth and translated by Charlotte Barslund was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards for Translated Literature.