verso

A furious denunciation of America’s coronavirus criminalsHundreds of thousands of deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the c...

Free market, competitive capitalism is dead. The separation between politics and economics can no longer be sustained.In The Corona Crash, leading ...

The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporar...

Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2’s icon...

Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he e...

How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls “the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy,” easily the best-known “thinker” under sixty in France? ...

An investigation of Sachs’s schizophrenic career, and the worldwide havoc he has caused.Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated econom...

One of the most influential intellectuals in the English-speaking world, Michael Ignatieff’s story is generally understood to be that of an ambitio...

A leading activist-scholar on what’s next in the Sanders revolutionBernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes a...

Crime in Literature addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works. It is not a work of li...

The austerity crisis and threat to disability rights. New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people.In a...

The austerity crisis and threat to disability rightsIn austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social car...

How does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? Through reflection on its own crisis of formCriticism of contemporary art is split by an o...

An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left’s foremost political economistsFrom the acclaimed author of How Will Capitalism ...

The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It sh...

During the last hundred years, the private and public voices of Latin American poetry have offered a wealth of imaginative responses to the region‘...

Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his w...

Recent international interest in the painters of the Mexican mural movement, such as Rivera and Orozco, has brought Latin American art to a wider a...

Carlos Monsiváis is one of Latin America’s most prescient and prolific social commentators. In this, the first English translation of his work, he ...

How can Latin Americans understand their past? Do ideologies which have been imported from Europe necessarily distort their view, or is that to und...

Challenging the stereotypical images of the dominating male and the subservient woman, Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas addresses the variety of repres...

This unique guide to the politics and recent history of Central America by one of its most distinguished commentators opens with a succinct overvie...

Brazil’s victory in the 1994 World Cup is the latest chapter in an extensive history of the world’s most popular game in South America. In this eng...