verso

Winter 2020 issue of Salvage, featuring Andreas Malm, Helen Charman, James Meadway, Tessa McWatt, and many others.That Hideous Strength includes a ...

Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...

The acclaimed art fanzine’s psychogeographic drifts through a ruined citySavage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Oldfield Ford’s fanzine to...

Americans see the Democratic Party as the anti-war party: vacillating flipfloppers in the eyes of conservatives; or, in the liberal view, restraine...

The highly anticipated new novel by the author of the Booker-shortlisted international bestseller, Crooked PlowMoisés lives with his father, Mundin...

A probing investigation of Southeast Asia’s online scam industry – told through the voices of survivorsRunning the gamut from the infamous ‘pig but...

Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migr...

Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migr...

School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good...

No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method. In this work, Feyerabend revie...

No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method. In this work, Feyerabend revie...

Drawing on an impressive wealth of evidence, Science, Seeds and Cyborgs challenges the legitimacy of genetic engineering. This prescient book highl...

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our “digital...

What is Scottish independence for?Since the referendum, Scottish independence has been captured by conservative forces. Scotland After Britain argu...

‘Watching the president’s Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in ...

‘Watching the president’s Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in ...

The city has long been an important location for film-makers. Visually compelling and always “modern,” it is the perfect metaphor for man’s place i...

Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society...

A new and essential history of the Labour new left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn.Jeremy Corbyn’s rapid ascent to the leadership of the Labour Par...

Secrets of Life and Death is the first book to focus on women whose lives are entangled in the workings of the mafia. Drawing on courtroom testimon...

Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and mi...

During the 1980s, university-based intellectuals came under heavy fire from both radicals and conservatives. They were accused by the former of bet...