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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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  • 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
  • Prisoners of the American Dream
    Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industriall...
    Paperback
  • Capitalism and the Sea
    Winner of the IPEG 2022 Book PrizeThe global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds a...
    Hardback

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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
  • Rosa Luxemburg
    This biography, first published half a century ago, remains the most detailed and comprehensive study of Rosa Luxemburg. Nettl’s extensive knowledge of the social and political context of the Europ...
    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 ...
    Paperback
  • 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...