Verso Books

Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the...

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by Susan Stryker ?A beautifully written and argued book...

When landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done? Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented...

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well being Leading...

How to build a fairer, more neuro-inclusive society Neurodiversity is one of the most urgent political issues of our time. As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other types of...

Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France?s most famous novelist and observer In Balzac?s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured...

Unsettles, expands and deepens our understanding of the black meme...necessary reading; brilliant and utterly convincing. ?Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes "You will be galvanized by Legacy...

How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO?s global anticommunist crusade?and its...

A must-read, an antidote to powerlessness, a literary companion for the ages. ?Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "Editors' Choice" ?New York Times Book Review A comprehensive collection of...

Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read. ?Hannah Zeavin, Founding Editor,...

POLITICIANS AND SCIENTISTS HAVE DEBATED CLIMATE CHANGE FOR CENTURIES IN TIMES OF RAPID CHANGE Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste...

A groundbreaking history of oil and it's importance to US politics, finance, militarism and consumerism from an award-winning author and scholar This expansive history traces the hidden connections...

For a decade and a half, since she first appeared in the Birmingham Centre?s collective volume The Empire Strikes Back, Hazel Carby has been on the frontline of the debate over multicultural...

How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggle Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution...

HOW AN IRON FIST DONNED DEMOCRACY?S VELVET GLOVE The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers? movements, according to Domenico...

Searching reflections on the crisis in Israel and Gaza by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine...

How technology and the politics of attention changed the way we look at art The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance has changed. How are we expectedto engage with today's diverse...

A collection of essays exploring emancipatory social science, inspired by the work of pioneering sociologist Erik Olin Wright Erik Olin Wright was one of the most brilliant and world renowned social...

An insider?s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling...

Joseph Andras writes with the swiftness of lightning. ?Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh's immigration and radical life in...

The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activist Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture...

Empowers readers to write their own recipes for a future in peril: an exercise in democracy few books have dared to undertake. ?Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline A plan to save the...

How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it...

Hollow Land is a groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel?s colonial occupation. In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their...

The promise of the New Economy gone, we have regressed into the age of techno-feudalism The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn?t deliver...

HOW RACE, CLASS, AND POLITICS INFLUENCE THE WAY WE MOVE You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history...

Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact, and so little understood as a concept, as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both students and for those...

A passionate and groundbreaking bestseller from one of Norway?s most highly-regarded and award-winning novelists, for readers of Annie Ernaux's A Simple Passion and Coco Mellors' Cleopatra and...

A new satirical extravaganza from one of Britain? best-loved political cartoonists Steve Bell? If?cartoon strip in the Guardian attracted generations of loyal readers. If?Stands Up is his hilarious...

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of...