If you love or have ever loved a literary magazine, I bring glad tidings. This week heralds a new appreciation rite for the discerning reader. Happy #LitMagWeek, everyone! #LitMagWeek is the brainc…

One of the hallmarks of the modern corporation is the separation of ownership from control. The firm is owned by shareholders but led by managers, who

Andrew Holter interviewed Tom Overton, author of a new biography, “John Berger: From Life,” out from Verso Books. In this fascinating discussion, Overton discusses his friendship with Berger, the biog...

Andrew Holter interviewed Tom Overton, author of a new biography, “John Berger: From Life,” out from Verso Books. In this fascinating discussion, Overton discusses his friendship with Berger, the biog...

Andrew Holter interviewed Tom Overton, author of a new biography, “John Berger: From Life,” out from Verso Books. In this fascinating discussion, Overton discusses his friendship with Berger, the biog...

John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the world’s most influential thinkers and writers. As a novelist, he won the Booker and donated half his prize money to the Black Panthers; as a critic, he changed h...

In a renewed period of coups across the African continent, Ruth First’s analysis in The Barrel of a Gun remains as timely as ever.

We begin in medias res, along a path traveled by a landowner. In the opening pages of Rómulo Gallegos’s landmark 1929 novel Doña Bárbara, the novel’s protagonist, Santos Luzardo, travels toward his…

We begin in medias res, along a path traveled by a landowner. In the opening pages of Rómulo Gallegos’s landmark 1929 novel Doña Bárbara, the novel’s protagonist, Santos Luzardo, travels toward his…

Verso Presents: The Future of Digital Theory A conversation about the possibility of radical critique on digital platforms. This event will feature short presentations from writers and digital creato...

Moisés is a young boy growing up in a remote Brazilian village that is dominated by a monastery that not only rules the moral world of the town, but also its land, charging regular taxes. His sister, ...

Some of music’s most exact measurements have been taken in relation to concerts. Spend any time looking at music from an environmental perspective and you are sure to learn that live music accounts…

We have public housing, but it has never been as well designed, built, or maintained. We have limited-equity co-ops built by limited-dividend companies, but we built far fewer of them, and we allowed ...

One's understanding of the world is developed over a lifetime, with education coming in many forms. Some get it through academic study, others through years in the labor force, while all, on some leve...