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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 · 1d
Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope
Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 1d
“Overshoot ideology came packaged in a peculiarly Californian business ethos in which unhinged entrepreneurialism was elevated to a cultural form.” New online: Wim Carton and Andreas Malm on recent experiments in geoengineering.
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Overshooters | Wim Carton and Andreas Malm
It was not the underprivileged who took the initiative. It was one Luke Iseman, merchant of hardware and software, founder of multiple companies, former director of a “tech incubator,” builder of art ...
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Michal Schatz @miyyka.bsky.social · 16h
Saturday, 18 October!

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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 1d
UK universities claim to be reckoning with their imperial and colonial pasts, but refuse to see their implication in the genocidal settler colonialism of the present – so how serious are these exercises? wrote about this for @versobooks.bsky.social blog

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Race Reports
In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published a wide-ranging ‘Review of Race and History’ that attempts to confront its legacies of enslavement and colonialism. Four months earlier, the Universi...
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Erik Skare @erikskare.no · 21h
First time for everything, interview on Bosnian television in Sarajevo about Road to October 7 (@versobooks.bsky.social)
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 1d
Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope
Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.
www.versobooks.com
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 1d
Out today - The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state, now published with a new preface
The Idea of Israel
Ilan Pappe’s pioneering work, first published in 2014, is a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state. Divorced from material and political realities, blind to the violen...
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 2d
essential reading
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 2d
The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...
The Long Heat
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 1d
The Long Heat is a necessary intervention, defining climate politics when it's too late.

For a taste of the book, we have just published an extract: www.break-down.org/extract-the-...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 1d
Out today - Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

This is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. These works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people.
Gaza
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction i...
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 2d
The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...
The Long Heat
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...
www.versobooks.com
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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 5d
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries. I started it last weekend and am totally engrossed. It doesnt hurt that I'm going to Frankfurt in just over a week for the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 5d
What are you reading this weekend?
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 5d
What are you reading this weekend?
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d
David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.
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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samwise ✨ @aridadne.bsky.social · 6d
so pumped-- hold everything dear by john berger is a beautiful text, excited for More
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 6d
Three new books have entered our Essential John Berger series!

ART AND REVOLUTION
A SEVENTH MAN
FROM A TO X

"Any book by John Berger is an event." – Times Literary Supplement

Shop the series on our website today!
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chuckmertz.bsky.social @chuckmertz.bsky.social · 6d
NEW FREE EP! No membership required!

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on "Extractive Capitalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social):

"This incredible inequality has to be protected through a whole series of unpopular authoritarian measures and through the force of the gun."

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NEW EP!: Capitalism Depends on Destruction! | This Is Hell!
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 6d
Three new books have entered our Essential John Berger series!

ART AND REVOLUTION
A SEVENTH MAN
FROM A TO X

"Any book by John Berger is an event." – Times Literary Supplement

Shop the series on our website today!
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 7d
Well, this is exciting. Very pleased to have received hard copies of these two new and highly recommended books from @versobooks.bsky.social: Up in the Air: a History of High-Rise Britain by @holsmith.bsky.social and Eviction: a Social History of Rent by Jessica Field ...
Front covers of Up in the AIr: a History of High-Rise Britain by Holly Smith and Eviction: a Social History of Rent by Jessica Field Back covers of Up in the Air: a History of High-Rise Britain by Holly Smith and Eviction: a Social History of Rent by Jessica Field with recommendations
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 7d
*EXCLUSIVE*

This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚

Read now👇

www.break-down.org/extract-the-...
EXTRACT: The Long Heat
An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 6d
For the @the-breakdown.bsky.social today, we have an exclusive extract from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's superb latest book, The Long Heat!

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EXTRACT: The Long Heat
An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.
www.break-down.org
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Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · 6d
I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 6d
Will you join us on 10/15 @versobooks.bsky.social? Hope so!
"The War of Art" | Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Eva Díaz, and Walter Benn Mi
Join Verso Books for a panel on Lauren O'Neill-Butler's latest book The War of Art . She will be joined in conversation by Eva Diaz and Walter Benn Michaels. Due to limited space an RSVP will be requi...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 7d
Noam Chomsky and José Mujica's co-authored book, "Surviving the 21st Century," is out now from @versobooks.bsky.social.

Here's snippet of the Uruguayan revolutionary and statesman's writings.
Pepe Mujica: My Generation Made a Naive Error
The late Uruguayan statesman José “Pepe” Mujica argues that capitalism is not just property relations but a set of cultural values that the Left must confront with a culture of solidarity.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 7d
Join us at the @versobooks.bsky.social office on October 14 for a discussion with @chiosse.bsky.social, @ceaweaver.bsky.social, and @jwmason.bsky.social about how Zohran Mamdani can deliver on his agenda as mayor.

Limited tickets available. Get yours today:

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 7d
“Blouin’s very birth troubled a colonial order erected on a strict racial hierarchy. She would make sure that her life would be far more of a problem for it.”

@sandipto.bsky.social reviews MY COUNTRY, AFRICA, the autobiography of the anticolonial revolutionary published by @versobooks.bsky.social
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
www.bostonreview.net
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 8d
"The past, if not properly mourned, can come back to haunt us."

An excerpt from Stephen Frosh's new book, How to be Real - out today
Ghosts and Ancestors
[book-strip index="1" style="buy"] The past, if not properly mourned, can come back to haunt us. Let me start with one example. In October 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, was elected pre...
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