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Verso staff picks

We pick our favorite books from Verso's publishing.

Verso Books13 July 2023

Verso staff picks

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Colby, US Direct Marketing 

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Kelly, US Editorial 

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Jennifer, UK Marketing and Publicity

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Federico, Rights

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Michelle, US Publicity 

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Nick, Production

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Mark, Managing Editor

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Anne, US Sales and Publicity 

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Rowan, UK Director

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Anjali, UK Marketing

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Chris, Data Manager

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Leo, UK Editorial 

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Jeanne, Production Editor

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Daniel, Accounts

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Tim, US Publicity 

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Sebastian, UK Editorial 

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Anthony, US Publicity 

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  • The London Hanged
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    The London Hanged

    by Peter Linebaugh

    Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form...
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  • Citizens to Lords
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    Citizens to Lords

    by Ellen Meiksins Wood

    In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in...
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  • Restless Cities
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    Restless Cities

    Contributions by Marshall Berman, Kasia Boddy, Iain Borden, Rachel Bowlby, Geoff Dyer, Patrick Keiller, Esther Leslie, Michael Newton, Chris Petit, Michael Sayeau, Michael Sheringham, Iain Sinclair, David Trotter and Mark W. Turner

    Edited by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart

    The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a ‘city-symphony’ to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities t...
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  • Criticism and Ideology
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    Criticism and Ideology

    by Terry Eagleton

    Terry Eagleton is one of the most important—and most radical—theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies...
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  • A Short History of 'Cahiers du Cinéma'
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    A Short History of 'Cahiers du Cinéma'

    by Emilie Bickerton

    Cahiers du Cinéma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art,’ equal to literature, painting or mu...
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  • The Seasons of Trouble
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    The Seasons of Trouble

    by Rohini Mohan

    For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 ...
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  • Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy
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    Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy

    by Gabriella Coleman

    Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer theHuffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ ...
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  • Explore Everything
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    Explore Everything

    by Bradley L. Garrett

    What does it feel like to find the city’s edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a ...
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  • Algiers, Third World Capital
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    Algiers, Third World Capital

    by Elaine Mokhtefi

    Introduction by Jeremy Harding

    Mokhtefi (née Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she served as a press adviser to the National Liberation Front in postwar Algiers, before going...
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  • Futurability
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    Futurability

    by Franco Berardi

    We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing that radical change that is so desperately needed. Is...
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  • The Essence of Nihilism
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    The Essence of Nihilism

    by Emanuele Severino

    In 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the ‘fundamental incompatibility’ between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosop...
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  • Hegel Contra Sociology
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    Hegel Contra Sociology

    by Gillian Rose

    Gillian Rose is among the twentieth century’s most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculativ...
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  • Virtue and Terror
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    Virtue and Terror

    by Maximilien Robespierre

    Introduction by Slavoj Žižek

    Edited by Jean Ducange

    Translated by John Howe

    Robespierre’s defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed...
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  • Before Stalinism
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    Before Stalinism

    by Samuel Farber

    Before Stalinism is a historical study of democratic life and institutions and their decline in the early years of the Russian Revolution. While attempting to synthesize a wealth of available hi...
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  • Considerations on Western Marxism
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    Considerations on Western Marxism

    by Perry Anderson

    This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Ru...
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  • Lineages of the Absolutist State
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    Lineages of the Absolutist State

    by Perry Anderson

    Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiq...
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  • Fossil Capital
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    Fossil Capital

    by Andreas Malm

    The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess?In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began...
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  • The Limits to Capital
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    The Limits to Capital

    by David Harvey

    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...
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  • Democracy Against Capitalism
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    Democracy Against Capitalism

    by Ellen Meiksins Wood

    Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference”, and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subjec...
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  • Savage Messiah
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    Savage Messiah

    by Laura Grace Ford

    Preface by Greil Marcus

    Introduction by Mark Fisher

    Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford’s fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city’s working c...
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  • The Many-Headed Hydra
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    The Many-Headed Hydra

    by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

    Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and...
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  • The Philosophy of Marx
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    The Philosophy of Marx

    by Étienne Balibar

    Translated by Gregory Elliott and Chris Turner

    Written by one of political theory’s leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts ...
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  • The Unseen
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    The Unseen

    by Nanni Balestrini

    Preface by Antonio Negri

    Translated by Liz Heron

    For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “poli...
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  • The Xenofeminist Manifesto
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    The Xenofeminist Manifesto

    by Laboria Cuboniks

    The Xenofeminist Manifesto is an attempt to articulate a feminism fit for the twenty-first century. Unafraid of exploring the potentials of technology, exploring both oppressive and emancipatory po...
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  • The Mosaic of Islam
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    The Mosaic of Islam

    by Suleiman Mourad

    Today, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and useful book, the acclaimed writer Perry Anderson interviews the n...
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