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Saints and Scholars

by Terry Eagleton
“Sheer fun and sadness welling up out of critical intelligence.”—Sunday Times Books of the Year
Water, Inc.

by Varda Burstyn

A fast-paced eco-thriller of thwarted water privatization.
George & Martha

by Karen Finley
An outrageous political satire by America's most daring performance artist and writer.
Politics Noir

Edited by Gary Phillips
They seek power at any price, and pay with the devil’s own coin!
1 post

From A to X

by John Berger
A beautifully imagined story of love and resistance, by one of the foremost novelists of our age.
15 posts
Field of Honour

by Max Aub
Evocative, modernist novel chronicles the prelude to the Spanish Civil War.
3 posts
The Blue Manuscript

by Sabiha Al Khemir

An enchanting story of the search for an ancient artifact.
Manituana

by Wu Ming
From the authors of Q, a genre-breaking reimagining of the Revolutionary War.
7 posts

Corker's Freedom

by John Berger
"A contemporary masterpiece"—New York Review of Books
14 posts
A Painter of our Time

by John Berger

A beautiful new edition of John Berger's first novel.

16 posts
I’m With the Bears

Edited by Mark Martin
“This collection is a jolt out of our armchairs, a call to arms ... written with verve and style”—Chicago Tribune
28 posts
The Conspiracy

by Paul Nizan

A sardonic reflection on the idealisms and absurdities of intellectual youth.

1 post

The Unseen

by Nanni Balestrini

An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion.

9 posts
Tycoonery: A Novel

by Roger Smith

Voracious capitalism meets provincialism in this blackly comic novel of love and money in 1970s England
The Lives of Things

by José Saramago

A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifs

7 posts
Altai

by Wu Ming

“Altai is a great historical thriller and the prose has all the surface glitter of the Grand Canal or the Golden Horn.” – Edward Stourton, Financial Times

9 posts

Tristano

by Nanni Balestrini

“You cannot read this novel, unless I lend it to you, as each of the copies Verso publish this month contain different iterations of the same text.” – Rhizome

9 posts
The Book of Saladin

by Tariq Ali

A rich and teeming chronicle set in Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem

4 posts
Night of the Golden Butterfly

by Tariq Ali

The final volume in Tariq Ali’s acclaimed cycle of historical novels, The Islam Quintet

11 posts
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

by Tariq Ali

“An enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve.” —Independent

4 posts

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