Verso Book Club: September 2026

Print Books

Partisan and Comrade members will receive their choice of two print titles. See our FAQs for step-by-step instructions on choosing your print books. 

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Comrade members will also receive an additional print book chosen by our editors. 

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Ebooks

All of our members will receive a digital edition of every book we're publishing next month. 

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  • Saving the Fire

    Saving the Fire

    by Itamar Vieira Junior

    Translated by Johnny Lorenz

    Moisés lives with his father and sister in a Brazilian village dominated by the local monastery. His mother having died mysteriously, Moisés is raised by his sister Luzia, a young woman rumored to ...
    Paperback
    Preorder Sale price $28.95

    This book will be shipped when it is published on 1 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • The Hard Question of Art

    The Hard Question of Art

    by Metahaven

    Art doesn’t change the world directly; yet we persist in wanting it to. This book argues for a different understanding of art. In these urgent times, we need to rethink the purpose and effects of a...
    Hardback
    Preorder Sale price $39.95

    This book will be shipped when it is published on 25 August 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

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Book strip #3

  • Power and the People

    Power and the People

    by Arthur Downing

    The energy crisis of the early 2020s exposed the true nature of Britain’s energy system: fragile, fragmented, comically complicated, and hopelessly dependent on imported fossil fuels. How did it co...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price $13.99

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 1 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • Theory of Immediate World Revolution

    Theory of Immediate World Revolution

    by Marcel Mariën

    Introduction by Anna O'Meara

    Contributions by François Coadou and Abigail Susik

    Edited by Anna O'Meara

    Translated by Nadège Lejeune, Anna O'Meara and Ian Thompson

    In 1958, Belgian surrealist Marcel Mariën drafted a plan to topple capitalism on a global scale—achievable in a single year, in any place, at any time. The catch? It required three hundred accompli...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price $13.99

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 8 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • Restraining Power

    Restraining Power

    by David C. Hendrickson

    Restraining Power examines the ethical and strategic dilemmas of sovereign coexistence. Excavating a forgotten tradition of the “law of nature and nations” intended to restrain the violent impulses...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price $19.99

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 8 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • A Right to Housing?

    A Right to Housing?

    by Samuel Stein

    In the fight for housing, we are caught between the world we know and the world we want. This book is both a road map and a reckoning. Drawing on his own experience of on-the-ground organizing, Sam...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price $13.99

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 8 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • The Full English

    The Full English

    by Lewis Bassett

    What is English food? The award-winning podcaster Lewis Bassett is a chef in search of an answer. Whether examining the recent invention of sourdough or the aristocratic assumptions informing the r...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price $19.99

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 22 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • The Weight of Nightmares

    The Weight of Nightmares

    by Kenan Van De Mieroop-Al Bahrani

    In this provocative and thoughtful new book, Kenan van de Mieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt, and inheritance operate through a politics of time, where history is never simply...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price $19.99

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 29 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • John Berger

    John Berger

    by Tom Overton

    John Berger (1926–2017) served in Britain’s wartime army before attending art school. The young artist became a critic and broadcaster, cutting a swathe through the staid world of post-war Britain,...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price $19.99

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 29 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • After Year Zero

    After Year Zero

    by Fredric Jameson

    Edited by Carson Welch

    In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it de­veloped in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers — Horkheimer, Adorno, H...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price $13.99

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 15 September 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • Eviction

    Eviction

    by Jessica Field

    Grounded in personal experience, Eviction uncovers a hidden history of housing injustice and working-class resistance in what has become a perennial battleground for social conflict in modern Brita...
  • Loot

    Loot

    by Adam Raz

    Translated by Philip Hollander

    During the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, businesses, and farms. This bitter truth was then suppressed or forgotten over the coming years.Tens of...