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An excerpt from Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, edited by Peter Orner.

An excerpt from Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture, edited by Gabriel Thompson.

An excerpt from Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince, part of the Voice of Witness series of oral history.

We are thrilled at Verso when our titles make an impact, especially so when they reach audiences worldwide in translation as foreign editions. 

To celebrate #WomenInTranslation month, we are highlighting international editions of Verso books by women. The first in our series showcases Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship by Claire Bishop in Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Polish and Slovenian, all testaments to the international audience for Claire Bishop's incendiary ideas and to the gamechanging impact of this book, first published by Verso in 2012.

An excerpt from Muhanned Al-Azzah's portion of Palestine Speaks, part of the Voice of Witness series. 

Continuing his series of additional chapters to General Intellects, McKenzie Wark writes about the recent work of leading Chinese general intellect, Wang Hui. 

“Black women will save us!” has become a kind of liberal refrain following the presidential election (where 94% of Black women voters supported Clinton) and the emergence of Maxine Waters and Kamala Harris as congressional gadflies.

In an interview, Chantal Mouffe explains her conception of left-populism.

The decisions made in the design of networked technologies—from Snapchat to Tinder—constitute a coherent ideology. Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, argues that few of us recognise that, let alone question where it comes from and what it means.

An extract from Ann Pettifor's The Production of Money, examining the inner workings and the value of bitcoin. 

We present a reading list of titles that examine our current economic state, including political economist Ann Pettifor's look at the history of the money system, The Production of Money, and an introduction to Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty First Century.