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Recommended Reading | Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

The authors of the newly published The Long Heat share a selection of their recommended reads from the Verso catalogue.

Verso Books 9 October 2025

Recommended Reading | Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

The celebrate the publication of their new book, The Long Heat, authors Wim Carton and Andreas Malm have curated a list of Verso titles.

Save 30% on any of the selected titles with the purchase of The Long Heat.

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Wim Carton

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Andreas Malm

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  • The Limits to Capital
    Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his cla...
    Paperback
  • On Materialism

    On Materialism

    This polemical work presents to the English-speaking world one of the most original philosophical thinkers to have emerged within post-war Europe. Sebastiano Timpanaro is an Italian classical philo...
    Paperback
  • The Making of Global Capitalism
    The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be ...
    Paperback
  • Uneven Development
    In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalism. Feat...
    Paperback
  • Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
    At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that—post-apocalypse—...
    Paperback

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  • Fire Alarm

    Fire Alarm

    Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism — Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an “unclassifi...
    Paperback
  • Minima Moralia

    Minima Moralia

    Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-cen...
  • The Authoritarian Personality
    What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality, written in the shadow of Fascism and the Holocaust, looked t...
    Paperback
  • Hollow Land
    How does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how ...
  • Burnout
    In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that que...