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What are you reading this weekend?
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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
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Verso Books
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What are you reading this weekend?
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Tad DeLay
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The Guardian’s article on my book.
“Elaborate yet accessible…Future of Denial is an eloquent, forthright text about the realities of the crisis and where it’s heading.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Verso Books
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Here is the third installment of our nine-part series: The Novel of Lenin by Joseph Andras. 1895-1900: Travels to Paris and Germany, the Creation of a Journal
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Verso Books
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The second installment of our nine-part series, The Novel of Lenin by Joseph Andras is now live on our blog. Chapter Two, 1885-1893: The Death of the Brother, Marxist Circles, Nicholas II Ascends to the Throne
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Jason Read
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The good folks at E-Flux have published an excerpt from The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work.
www.e-flux.com/notes/599074... @versobooks.bsky.social
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In the first installment of The Novel of Lenin, Joseph Andras writes on the birth of Vladimir and the assassination of Tsar Alexander II
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Verso Books
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We’re excited to announce a new nine-part blog series: The Novel of Lenin by Joseph Andras. Starting today, and for the next eight weeks, we will be releasing a new installment of Andras’s biographical micro-novel, to mark the centenary of Lenin’s death.
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Tad DeLay
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FUTURE OF DENIAL releases in 2 weeks!
Preorder on @versobooks.bsky.social site with this discount link (or promo code DENIAL) for $17.97 hardcover or $6 ebook. Beats $29 on Amazon
www.versobooks.com/discount/DEN...
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Anna Kornbluh
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Verso Books New Works of Theory in Context sale!
get Immediacy alongside Boris Groys, Hito Steyerl, and other interlocutors and heroes! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5...
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Verso Books
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Anarcho-syndicalist, Catholic, Marxist, mystic: Simone Weil remains one of the twentieth century's most compelling and enigmatic philosophers. Recent years have seen a number of writers turn to her work for inspiration, but what the left gain from her difficult, often contradictory writing?
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Erik Skare
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Good things coming spring semester 2025. @versobooks.bsky.social
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Stu Hennigan
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Plundered 8 books from the @versobooks.bsky.social sale before i'd even got out of bed so the revolutionary ire is strong this morning 📚 💣💥
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Jason Read
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This week on Hotel Bar Sessions we discuss Luddites and anti-work with Gavin Mueller, author of Breaking Things at Work. @versobooks.bsky.social
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/epis...
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Doug Henwood
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fresh audio product:
• Jeet Heer on Indian Americans in politics and society (article here)
• Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, authors of The Fall and Rise of American Finance, on the new finance capital
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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Rita, antifascist🏴
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still reeling from the rage of this situation after an excellent read 👇🏽 unexpectedly, Boris Kagarlitsky’s appeal trial had the Russian state overturning December’s verdict “and a sentence of five years in a general regime penal colony imposed. Boris was taken into custody from the courtroom.”
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Verso Books
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In celebration, we've made Claiming the City available for 40% off for the next 48 hours
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Verso Books
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Shelton Stromquist has been awarded the The International Labor History Association's 2023 Book of the Year award for Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism!
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Verso Books
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We join the call for the immediate release of Boris Kagarlitsky. Suzi Weissman outlines the details of the case, and calls for international solidarity.
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LSE Review of Books
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Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis by Alberto Toscano @versobooks.bsky.social unpacks the rise of contemporary #FarRight movements and how they diverge from 20th-century forms of #Fascism.
#Review by Dimitri Vouros wp.me/p2MwSQ-h9n
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Verso Books
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Out now: The Reckoning by Robin Blackburn
"Tremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best."
- @marcusrediker.bsky.social
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Verso Books
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What are you reading this weekend?
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Jason Read
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Eflux has republished my piece on Fascism and Taylor Swift as part of a collection on Toscano's Late Facism (the more this thing does the rounds the harder and harder it is getting to deny that I am not a secret Swifty).
www.e-flux.com/notes/590427...
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Doug Henwood
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fresh audio product:
• Gerald Epstein, author of Busting the Bankers’ Club, on the finance racket and how to transform it
• Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy, on our sped-up, unmediated cultural eternal present
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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Anna Kornbluh
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TANK’s new issue is dedicated to IMMEDIACY
@versobooks.bsky.social
): 300+ pages of features, fashion, art & more examining our dominant aesthetic mode of urgency, flow & frictionlessness
shop.tank.tv/products/spr...
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Mike McCarthy
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🚨my new book🚨
THE MASTER'S TOOLS will come out on @versobooks.bsky.social November 2024! It's going to be a month well suited for a book about democratic erosion and renewal.
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Verso Books
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Now available for preorder: The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy by Kjell Östberg "Reformism is a storehouse of mistakes, from which a left for a future needs to learn, and there is no better introduction than this book." - Andreas Malm
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Anna Kornbluh
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excerpt out today! all gratitude to the great staff of Protean Magazine!
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Protean Magazine
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Republished here is an excerpt from Anna Kornbluh's "Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism," from Verso (@versobooks.bsky.social), which examines how the immersion of the circulation economy has changed everything from writing to video to theory itself.
proteanmag.com/2024/02/08/i...
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Cap'n ACAB
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*Marxist theory sicko at the window*
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Verso Books
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Now available for preorder: The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital by Beverley Best. "Beverley Best has reinvented Capital, Volume III." -Fredric Jameson
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@theartsfuse.bsky.social
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Bill Littlefield on "The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration" @versobooks.bsky.social). The essays in this book are a critical read for folks who might be fighting prison expansion or construction in their neighborhoods.
artsfuse.org/285442/
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Jason Read
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Coming soon.
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Ben
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Recommend Against Borders via @versobooks.bsky.social , straddles the utopian and practical adroitly and the abolitionist perspectives presented have made me reconsider the subject of borders and immigration in an entirely new light: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... 💙📚
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Verso Books
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Drowning in a deluge of images without context, words without meaning, information without distinction—this is the subjective experience in an economy of immediacy.
An excerpt from Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy, out today.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
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Anna Kornbluh
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publication day! with ginormous thanks to all the inspirers and conspirers, and pre-orderers! let the wild rumpus start! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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Stu Hennigan
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For all you Kissinger fans 💪🤣
@versobooks.bsky.social always on point.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Nitish Pahwa
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spoke with Jonah Walters, a co-editor of the essay collection that Jacobin and @versobooks.bsky.social prepped years ago in anticipation of Henry Kissinger's death, about how the book came together—and the importance of remembering all of Kissinger's monstrous deeds: slate.com/business/202...
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jonah walters
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super duper proud that this project has finally come to fruition. it was an honor (and an education!) to co-edit this volume, which is full of perceptive and uncompromising essays by some of the best scholars in the world.
buy it at jacobin.com!
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Verso Books
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The latter half of the 20th century is full of Henry Kissinger's crimes. These books detail, or give context to, only a few.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/k...
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Verso Books
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Kissinger is finally dead. We've been waiting for this day for a long time.
We've partnered with Jacobin to release the definitive reappraisal of his murderous legacy: The Good Die Young.
Order here: jacobin.com/kissinger-on...
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Yazan Badran
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Enzo Traverso's "The End of Jewish Modernity" is probably one of most brilliant books I've read in recent years. Exemplary historical critique: lucid, erudite and principled. The interview below translated on @versobooks.bsky.social is a fine example.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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Jason Read
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My blurbs for my forthcoming book.
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The Baffler
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Our new issue features an excerpt from “Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work” by Laura Robson—out tomorrow from @versobooks.bsky.social
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Rebecca Ruth Gould
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Erasing Palestine published by @versobooks.bsky.social named among the "new books our avid readers and critics couldn't put down in November" by ABC News
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...
"Gould writes with acuity & a remarkable sense of candour, unafraid to aim her critical lens back upon herself."
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Gabriel Flynn
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80% sale on ebooks at @versobooks.bsky.social – just got this absolute haul for £9.50
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Stu Hennigan
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On this day of sickening capitalist mayhem, why not empty your wallet in the @versobooks.bsky.social end of year sale and do your brain a favour instead of buying a load of shite?
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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Jake Romm
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Last month, I spoke with Alberto Toscano about his new book Late Fascism (@versobooks.bsky.social)
Here's Part 1 of the interview in @proteanmag.com, covering the impetus behind the book, petit-bourgeois fascism, the idea of petty-sovereignty & more
Part 2 coming soon
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Verso Books
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Starting now, save up to 50% off your entire order during the Verso Books End of Year Sale!
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John Merrick
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First copies in of the new collection of Raphael Samuel’s historical essays! Out January, from @versobooks.bsky.social
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