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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
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"As Israel ostensibly redirects its weapons away from Gaza, the West Bank braces to receive them full-force.

What is the step from local ethnic cleansing to all-out genocide, when the world splits no hairs over international law?"

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The Death that Keeps on Going
How much can one village physically take? The worst-case scenario has already happened countless times in the small West Bank community of Umm al-Khair. It happened when prominent Palestinian activist...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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So very proud of my Brooklyn College colleague Alex Vitale who is an renown expert in policing with his scholarship and especially his famous book:
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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End of Policing was one of the more eye-opening non-fiction books I’ve read. I’m really happy to see this
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."

On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza

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The Impossible Reconstruction
Objects of Repair installation: Architects for Gaza, British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 There are places where the idea of reconstruction collapses under the weight of repetition. Gaz...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History - @versobooks.bsky.social, November 2025
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Revolutions
Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter P...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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fresh audio product:

• Paul Heideman @pmheideman.bsky.social, author of Rogue Elephant, on how the Republican party went from a staid vehicle of American business to the frothy lunacy of today

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November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Join us for a discussion between climate theorists Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, and acclaimed sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the new front lines in the struggle for a liveable planet.

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Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou
Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.
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Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.  This month, in honour of David H...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Rosianna Halse Rojas and Kate Evans discuss Jane Austen's quilt, fandom culture, and the colonial histories that are simultaneously everywhere in Austen's work and left out of the picture.

Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now!

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Patchwork: Jane Austen and the threads of empire
YouTube video by Rosianna Halse Rojas
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November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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November 30 @ 2pm est - be there!
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"With some basic lessons in physics, Malm and Carton show that much of what gets proposed now for coping with the climate crisis will not work." — Kim Stanley Robinson

Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!

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Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou
Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"With some basic lessons in physics, Malm and Carton show that much of what gets proposed now for coping with the climate crisis will not work." — Kim Stanley Robinson

Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!

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Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou
Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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On November 19, Verso Books celebrated the launch of its spring 2026 catalog at its offices in Manhattan. In attendance were Verso staffers (from l.) Jeanne Tao, Eva Sotomayor, Tim Thomas, Lana Pochiro, Colby Groves, and Anthony Korum.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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What are you reading this weekend?
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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In an article originally published by @versobooks.bsky.social, Vashti editor Kate Greenberg reflects on the impending demolition of the village of Umm al-Khair. www.vashtimedia.com/umm-al-khair...
The death that keeps on going
Months after the murder of activist Awdah Hathaleen, Israel's plan to demolish Umm al-Khair exposes a ruthless new level of impunity in the West Bank.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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"With some basic lessons in physics, Malm and Carton show that much of what gets proposed now for coping with the climate crisis will not work." — Kim Stanley Robinson

Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou
Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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“[Vigdis Hjorth’s] If Only is an anti-love story, a reverse romance: instead of hoping and waiting for the lovers to get together, you dread their being finally united.” —@ursulind.bsky.social
Clarity and Delusion | Ursula Lindsey
The Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth has a gift for depicting painful, confusing, and mortifying relationships.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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This outstanding essay by @itsmccarthy.bsky.social in Hammer and Hope captures a frustration that I have long felt with a certain strand of left opinion-makers. hammerandhope.org/article/iden...
On the left, some argue that economic populism is the only grounds for building a working-class movement that can reverse class dealignment. In this view, the left should simply pursue a politics of class while identity issues, such as immigration, gender, race, and sexuality, should be downplayed in political organizing. Others go further and treat conservative views on those topics as working-class majority views that the left must learn to embrace. But this new common sense contradicts reality. Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history. Dismissing the social differences between working-class people as irrelevant ignores the key building blocks of class politics. And a left that embraces the right’s divide-and-conquer rhetoric on criminal justice, gender, race, and immigration will only deepen political divisions within the working class. Subscribing to either view would doom the working-class solidarity needed to win.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Is shame ‘a revolutionary emotion’? I reviewed Frédéric Gros’ book Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion for the Aust Book Review
The review is pay-walled but you can hear me read it here: www.australianbookreview.com.au/book-reviews...
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‘For shame: Social value of an emotion’, by Jessica Whyte | The ABR Podcast #256
This week, on The ABR Podcast, Jessica Whyte reviews A Philosophy of Shame: A revolutionary emotion by Frédéric Gros. Whyte applauds the attempt to ‘revolutionise how we think about shame’ and to cons...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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NEW ON PATREON!

Inspired by @leninology.bsky.social's "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social), Chuck rants about fascism PLUS a 2005 talk with @earthfirst.bsky.social, @ran.org and The Ruckus Society co-founder Mike Roselle.

Join and listen now!

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NEW PATREON POD! 'Disaster Capitalism and a 2005 Talk with Earth First! Co-founder Mike Roselle | This Is Hell!
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November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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We're hiring an editor in our New York office!

Apply by December 1st, 2025
Job Openings
US Editor Verso Books is looking for an Editor to join the team in Verso’s New York office. This role will be responsible for acquiring and editing books for the Verso list, which covers a wide range ...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Big news... WE'RE MOVING!
Our landlord raised the rent by 50%, so we're moving 4 blocks down the street. We’re sad to leave this space, but there are a few big things we’re pumped about in the new spot including:
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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1.) Buy PCB merch! We’re running a tee and sweatshirt preorder campaign through November 25th, and shirts will ship out on December 15th. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/tee-sweatshi...
A graphic advertising shirt preorders. The text reads "SHIRT PREORDER / ORDER BEFORE NOVEMBER 25". Bottom left corner is a black teeshirt with a design of three femmes walking and reading a book next to the words "Always Carry A Book" printed in white. In the bottom right corner is a lavender teeshiirt with the words NO GODS/ NO MASTERS / NO BOSSES in block letters. Beneath NO GODS is a rat holding a book, beneath NO MASTERS are two rats holding bolt cutters, beneath NO BOSSES are three rats conspiring and holding bottles with flames coming out of them.
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM