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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 16h
"Making a Killing performs an essential act of witness and resistance. International law shall be our tool, but law without courage, evidence without action, and outrage without organization will not be enough." --Francesca Albanese Available for pre-order now!
Making a Killing:
How the West Profits From Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen
by Andrew Feinstein, Ruth Rohde and Jack Cinamon
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Attempts something rather daring...An easily accessible, funny history of one of the more formidable intellectual movements of the 20th century." --Owen Hatherley Our new in paperback edition is available for pre-order now!
Grand Hotel Abyss:
The Lives of the Frankfurt School
by Stuart Jeffries
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"When the political imagination is again struggling to find adequate forms, this volume restores 1977 in Italy to its rightful place...an invitation to think again, collectively, about what it might mean to live—and struggle—dangerously today." —Leopoldina Fortunati Available for pre-order now!
The Year of Living Dangerously:
Italy's Movement of ’77
by Jacopo Galimberti and Steve Wright
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"An exquisite reading of our historical situation." --Chicago Tribune Available for pre-order now, featuring a new introduction on "American Brainrot".
Heroes:
Mass Murder and Suicide - Includes a new Introduction "American Brainrot"
by Franco Berardi

Translated by Jamie Mackay
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A revelatory new history of the FBI that explores the relationship between domestic political surveillance and the emergence of the US national security state. (Forthcoming by @chipgibbons.bsky.social) Available for pre-order now!
The Imperial Bureau:
The FBI, Political Surveillance, and the Rise of the US National Security State
by Chip Gibbons
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Dorling digs deep to understand crises – past, present and future. Read this if you need realism, cheer and hope." --Ann Pettifor Available for pre-order now!
How Population Falls:
The Consequences of a Shrinking Humanity
by Danny Dorling
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
October 28 in NYC! Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali in conversation with Nadia Abu El Haj and Marc Lamont Hill on "The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle". pcp.gc.cuny.edu/event/the-ne...
The Neck and the Sword:
Palestine's Unfinished Struggle
by Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The Great Irish Famine skilfully unpicks the contested histories of the tragic years 1845–49, years which have shaped Irish and diasporic nationalisms as well as British ‘forgettings’, and which live on in collective myths and memories." —Catherine Hall Pre-order now!
The Great Irish Famine:
1846-1851
by Fabrice Bensimon and Laurent Colantonio

Translated by Nicole Charley
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"A legendary classic that galvanized freedom fighters around the world." --Cornel West Our new edition is available now!
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney

Foreword by Angela Davis
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congratulations to @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social on her 2026 MacArthur Fellowship! “Buck is setting forth a compelling vision for what is needed to launch a successful energy and climate transition and to support rural innovation, while remaining attentive to social realities and justice.”
After Geoengineering:
Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration
by Holly Jean BuckEnding Fossil Fuels:
Why Net Zero is Not Enough
by Holly Jean Buck
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On International Translation Day, we're overjoyed to share that Vigdis Hjorth's "Repetition" is a finalist for the 2026 Cercador Prize!
The Cercador Prize recognizes works of literature in translation as selected by a committee of independent booksellers based across the United States.

The Monroe Girls by Antoine Volodine, translated from the French by Alyson Waters (Archipelago)

Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund (Verso Fiction)

The Song of Stork and Dromedary by Anjet Daanje, translated from the Dutch by David McKay (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, translated from the Bulgarian by Izidora Angel (Sandorf Passage)

Eden At Dawn by Karim Kattan, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Restless Books)

Pure Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud (Other Press)

My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden (New Vessel Press)

Dams by Irene Solà, translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (Graywolf Press)

City Like Water by Dorothy Tse, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce (Graywolf Press)

Event Horizon by Balsam Karam, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (Feminist Press)
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney

Foreword by Angela DavisThe Barrel of a Gun:
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État
by Ruth First

Foreword by Christopher J Lee
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Not often in American writing since Henry James can there have been a mind displaying at once such tentativeness and force. The best of Jameson’s work has felt mind-blowing in the way of LSD or mushrooms." --Benjamin Kunkel Our paperback edition is now available for pre-order!
Inventions of a Present:
The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization
by Fredric Jameson
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join us tonight in NYC for a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event! Haymarket, Street Noise, and Verso Books talk about the power of stories, and their place in the revolution. brooklynbookfestival.org/event/publis...
Publishing Revolutionary Books - A panel featuring Liz Frances, Lana Pochiro, and Anne Rumberger; moderated by Sandy Jimenez. 

7:00 pm EST
September 28, 2026
Verso Books – 207 32nd St, New York, NY 10016
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Brooklyn Book Festival cancelled due to bad weather, we'll have our new hats and shirts available to order online early next week.
The Essential John Berger - white t-shirtArt and Revolution - embroidered grey hat
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For tenant organizers and activists:

If you are interested in hosting a reading group for A Right to Housing? please contact us at publicity@versobooks.com for a reading group guide and a discount on bulk purchases.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the weather holds out for the @bkbookfest.bsky.social this weekend, you can also pick up a limited run "Hold Everything Dear" tee shirt.
Hold Everything DearThe Essential John Berger
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"History and Class Consciousness is one of the most influential and, at the same time, the most controversial Marxist books of the twentieth century...The product of fifty years of critical reappraisal, this is one of the best studies ever written on Lukács’s thought." —Enzo Traverso Pre-order now!
The New Lukács:
Introduction to History & Class Consciousness
by Andrew Feenberg
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is this how an essay on a sculptor’s work should end? The sculpture being relegated to represent a phase in the world struggle against imperialism? I believe that nothing is more important than
this struggle. It is to this that in direct and devious ways we should devote all our energy. For those who cannot do so the logical conclusion is suicide.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Find us this weekend at the Brooklyn Book Festival for early access to our limited run John Berger "Art and Revolution" hats.
Art and Revolution: The Essential John Berger Baseball CapsArt and Revolution: The Essential John Berger Baseball CapsArt and Revolution: The Essential John Berger Baseball CapsArt and Revolution: The Essential John Berger Baseball Caps
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us next Monday at our offices in NYC for a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event! Haymarket, Street Noise Books, and Verso talk about the power of stories, and their place in the revolution. brooklynbookfestival.org/event/publis...
Publishing Revolutionary Books - A panel featuring Liz Frances, Lana Pochiro, and Anne Rumberger; moderated by Sandy Jimenez. 

7:00 pm EST
September 28, 2026
Verso Books – 207 32nd St, New York, NY 10016
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"One of Palestine’s foremost intellectuals and leaders. Kanafani’s universalism and commitment to Palestine will eternally serve as a model." --Ilan Pappe Available for pre-order now!
Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968
by Ghassan Kanafani

Introduction by Rashid Khalidi
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"[The global arms industry] is committed to shredding men, women and children in the name of ’national security’. This book explodes that myth with harrowing testimony and investigations into how the civilians of Gaza and Yemen are paying the ultimate price..." — Antony Loewenstein Pre-order now!
Making a Killing:
How the West Profits From Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen
by Jack Cinamon, Andrew Feinstein and Ruth Rohde
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"This beautiful book offers us a soundly backed, crystal clear re-telling of the nature of the proprietary, enclosed, dominated, genocidal world we inhabit (for now)." --Sophie Lewis Available for pre-order now!
Capitalism and Confinement
by A.J. Bohrer
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"A thought-provoking discussion. Important and useful. Traverso is exemplary in insisting that there is nothing inevitable about the return of a successful fascist movements and to suggest that what the left does will be decisive." --Chris Nineham Available for pre-order now!
The New Faces of Fascism:
Populism and the Far Right
by Enzo Traverso
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"He has given the truest, least partial, most comprehensive and vivid account of what life is like on our planet...A great imaginative writer, he goes way beyond the material he is processing." --Geoff Dyer Available for pre-order now!
The Other
by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Introduction by Neal Ascherson

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The greatest intellectual titan of the past half-century. No one reads anything (not literature, not film, not even the uncannily lit corridors of a casino) quite like Jameson did..." --Jacob Brogan "After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought" is available now!
After Year Zero:
On Postwar German Thought
by Fredric Jameson

Edited by Carson Welch
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The stroke of an enchanter’s wand endows unproductive money with the power of creation and turns it into capital.” --Karl Marx Available for pre-order now!
The Enchanter's Wand:
The Volatile Partnership at the Heart of Global Finance
by Ramaa Vasudevan
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
October 28 in NYC! Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali in Conversation with Nadia Abu El Haj and Marc Lamont Hill on The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle. pcp.gc.cuny.edu/event/the-ne...
The Neck and the Sword:
Palestine's Unfinished Struggle
by Tariq Ali and Rashid Khalidi
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Freud’s Three Essays on Sexuality stands, there can be no doubt, beside his Interpretation of Dreams as his most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge." —James Strachey Available for pre-order now!
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality:
The 1905 Edition
by Sigmund Freud

Introduction by Philippe Van Haute and Herman Westerink

Translated by Ulrike Kistner
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"A major contribution to the historiography of 1977; it is an invitation to think again, collectively, about what it might mean to live—and struggle—dangerously today." --Leopoldina Fortunati Available for pre-order now!
The Year of Living Dangerously:
Italy's Movement of ’77
by Jacopo Galimberti and Steve Wright
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"As a diagnostician, Berardi is among the sharpest." --Slate An expanded edition is available for pre-order now!
Heroes:
Mass Murder and Suicide
by Franco Berardi

Translated by Jamie Mackay
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"An eminent prehistorian… a scholar of international repute who reached a wider public." --The Times Available for pre-order now!
What Happened in History
by Gordon Childe

Introduction by David Wengrow
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I admire [Red Rosa] as an artist. I admire it as a writer. A huge achievement." --Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple.bsky.social) Our paperback edition is now available for pre-order!
Red Rosa:
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
by Kate Evans

Afterword by Paul Buhle

Edited by Paul Buhle
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Berger’s is a humane and uniquely confiding voice." --Teju Cole Available for pre-order now!
Keeping a Rendezvous
by John Berger
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Available now at 30% off!
The Barrel of a Gun:
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État
by Ruth First

Foreword by Christopher J Lee
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani." --Mohammed El-Kurd Available for pre-order now!
Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968
by Ghassan Kanafani

Introduction by Rashid Khalidi
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Rodney's magisterial opus is recognized globally as a landmark in African studies, not to mention the history of colonialism and imperialism. Beautifully written and expertly argued...It belongs on every bookshelf." --Gerald Horne Our new edition is available for pre-order now!
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney

Foreword by Angela Davis
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you are interested in hosting a reading group for A Right to Housing? please contact us at publicity@versobooks.com for a reading group guide and a discount on bulk purchases.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"A much-needed antidote to prevailing misconceptions about the Frankfurt School’s relationship to the New Left and its place in political history. A must-read for anyone interested in this tradition of Marxist thought." --A.J.A. Woods (@ajawoods.bsky.social) Available for pre-order now!
Critical Theory in Revolt:
How Angela Davis and the New Left Remade the Frankfurt School
by Cecilia Sebastian
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Masalha's sober and carefully researched account shows conclusively that 'transfer'—a euphemism for expulsion—was from the start an integral part of Zionism. An impressive and timely book. Quietly devastating research." —Ian Gilmour Available for pre-order now!
Expulsion of the Palestinians:
The Concept of 'Transfer' in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948
by Nur Masalha
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel how to stare at things until we see what we thought wasn’t there. But above all, he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master." --Arundhati Roy Available for pre-order at 30% off now!
The Sense of Sight
by John Berger
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"By a close study of Lukacs' key concepts - reification, totality, historicism - Feenberg argues for the path-breaking importance of History and Class Consciousness, and its relevance for today's social movements." --Michael Löwy Available for pre-order now!
The New Lukács:
Introduction to History & Class Consciousness
by Andrew Feenberg
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"One of China’s greatest living authors and fiercest satirists." --Jonathan Watts
The Women
by Yan Lianke

Translated by Jeremy Tiang
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"An Injury to All traces the titanic class struggles that splintered the post-war British working class. Gibbs opens up the last eighty years as a lived story of agency and conflict." --Callum Cant Available for pre-order now!
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"I admire and love John Berger's books. He writes about what is important, not just interesting. In contemporary English letters, he seems to me peerless... He is a wonderful artist and thinker." --Susan Sontag Available for pre-order now!
A Painter of our Time
by John Berger
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Russell's Black Meme is a history of dispossession and cultural production that have molded our evolving media landscape." --Shanti Escalante de Mattei Paperback edition now available for pre-order!
Black Meme:
A History of the Images that Make Us
by Legacy Russell
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"A brilliant mind. Peter wrote on film, art, politics, fashion, on culture generally. To say Peter Wollen was preternaturally and uniquely gifted is not adequate." -- Lynne Tillman Available for pre-order now at 30% off!
Arrows of Desire:
Selected Writings 1963-2002
by Peter Wollen

Edited by Kodwo Eshun, Oliver Fuke and Nicolas Helm-Grovas
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Paley masterfully combines insightful on the ground reporting with extensive documentary research to paint a frightening portrait of the militarization of Mexican society and the threat it poses to justice and democracy." --Alex Vitale
Generals at the Gates:
Military Power and Social Change in Mexico
by Dawn Marie Paley
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Overshoot:
How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm
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