Verso Books

Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...

Join Verso tomorrow for a discussion with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Golnar Nikpour, Ervand Abrahamian, and Afshin Matin-Asgari.

March 10 - 6pm UK/2pm EST/11am PST. Register below!

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...

Join Verso tomorrow for a discussion with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Golnar Nikpour, Ervand Abrahamian, and Afshin Matin-Asgari.

March 10 - 6pm UK/2pm EST/11am PST. Register below!

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

Post-apocalyptic Time I.                 “How did we end up in this hell?” is the question every Iranian I know asks. As I write these words, on the fifth day of the U.S.–Israel invasion of Iran, I am no longer certain…

"The lived reality of sanctions is one of suspension and erasure—where past achievements fade from global recognition and future possibilities are systematically obstructed."

Shahram Khosravi on Iranian life under constant rupture.

Celebrated Works of Fiction by Vigdis Hjorth Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. In 2019, her novel Will and Testament was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and in 202...

starting to get hjorth-pilled and i thought i was over autofiction

This Week in Hell! Capitalism Steals Our Future Plus 'Guns, Money and Opium' | This Is Hell! Get more from This Is Hell! on Patreon

Tues., on publication day, Timothy Mitchell discusses "The Alibi of Capital,"(@versobooks.bsky.social) and our future.

Weds., @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on “Guns, Money and Opium” at @lrb.co.uk, reviewing Seth Harp's "Fort Bragg Cartel.".

www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

10AM CDT at thisishell.com

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week Featuring Saba Sams, Jazmine Ulloa, Jordy Rosenberg, and more

Saba Sams’ Gunk, Vigdis Hjorth’s Repetition, and Terry Tempest Williams’ The Glorians all number among the best reviewed books of the week.

The Alibi of Capital Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of c...

Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow - @versobooks.bsky.social, March 2026
www.versobooks.com/products/345...

there is a macroeconomic reason novels are not written in the third person anymore and it is not good

www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Verso Feminist Classics | 30% off for International Women's Day Rediscover pioneering works of feminism from leading writers including Kathi Weeks, Vron Ware, and Michele Wallace. The Feminist Classics series brings together foundational texts in the critical and…

On International Women's Day, broaden your feminist horizons with reading that is anticapitalist, abolitionist, antiracist, as well as full of rage and defiance.

Verso celebrates International Women's Day For over a century International Women's Day has been a site of workers’ strikes and collective action.

Taking International Women's Day back to its radical roots, we bring you books that will broaden your feminist horizons with reading that is anticapitalist, abolitionist, antiracist, as well as full of rage and defiance.

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5...

International Women's Day is a day of protest and collective action.

'Woman's Day' was first recognized in the US in 1910 following the 13 week long strike of 20,000 female garment workers.

Four years later on this day in Russia, bread riots led by women fed directly into the 1917 revolution.

Verso celebrates International Women's Day For over a century the world has celebrated International Women's Day to honor women's movements around the globe and to bring attention to the battles still being fought to achieve equality. We're…

Celebrate International Women's Day by bringing it back to its radical roots.

30% off essential books on reproductive justice, socialist feminism, and trans liberation.

REPETITION, recursion...refashioning...recasting.... REPETITION VIGDIS HJORTH (tr. Charlotte Barslund) Verso Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.99 ebook, available now Rating...

@versobooks.bsky.social published REPETITION by the Norwegian Annie Ernaux, VIGDIS HJORTH, and translated by Charlotte Barslund: #Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/03/repe...

Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...

This Tuesday, March 10, join Verso for an urgent online discussion on the US-Israel war on Iran with Afshin Matin-Asgari, Golnar Nikpour, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, and Ervand Abrahamian.

Sign-up below:
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

A mini reading list to understand what’s happening in Iran. Today marks the seventh day of the unlawful U.S-Israel war against Iran. Like many a citizen, I’ve been struggling to understand what’s animating this latest burst of imperial violence.…

Brittany Allen recommends books to help you understand what’s happening in Iran.

Video: David Harvey presents The Story of Capital [book-strip index="1"] Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of students and academics for his teaching of Marx’s work, with a particular focus on Capital. Chapter by chapter – sometimes ...

The Story of Capital, What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works is now available from @versobooks.bsky.social

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/v...

Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...

This Tuesday, March 10, join Verso for an urgent online discussion on the US-Israel war on Iran with Afshin Matin-Asgari, Golnar Nikpour, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, and Ervand Abrahamian.

Sign-up below:
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

Verso Feminist Classics | 30% off for International Women's Day Rediscover pioneering works of feminism from leading writers including Kathi Weeks, Vron Ware, and Michele Wallace. The Feminist Classics series brings together foundational texts in the critical and…

Rediscover pioneering works of feminism from leading writers including Kathi Weeks, Vron Ware, and Michele Wallace!

Feminist Classics are 30% off until March 13th.

Thank you to Verso for letting me write a 50,000 word little book about the American Revolution. It's like an antidote to those Dad-history-book doorstops! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Ed Meek highly recommends Timothy Mitchell's "The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow " @versobooks.bsky.social. Capitalism's strategy: steal the future and conceal the theft.

artsfuse.org/325311/book-...

What are you reading this weekend?

Get ‘em while they’re hot! (And before they’re banned.)

Commune or Council Quantum Facility and Environmental Justice Campaign led by Southside Together in Chicago, IL. Photography by Matthew Kaplan. When you think about communism in the US, if you think about it at all, …

MTC contributing writer Matthew Beeber reviews recent books that return Paris Commune of 1871 as way of thinking about contemporary leftist uprisings and the future of revolution.

Verso celebrates International Women's Day For over a century International Women's Day has been a site of workers’ strikes and collective action.

For over a century International Women's Day has been a site of workers’ strikes and collective action.

We're celebrating by offering 30% off a selection of key texts on radical feminist theory and history.

Timothy Mitchell in conversation with Noah Kulwin | The Verso Book Clu On March 22nd at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT the VBC Reading Group will be joined by Timothy Mitchell, acclaimed author of Carbon Democracy, to discuss his latest book, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Ea...

Join us on March 22nd for the next session of the Verso Book Club. Timothy Mitchell will be joined by Noah Kulwin to discuss The Alibi of Capital!

"A paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy." -- Publishers Weekly

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

A headshot of Vigdis Hjorth with the text "listen now!" on it

On this week's #LARBRadioHour, Vigdis Hjorth joins the podcast to talk about her latest novel, "Repetition." Listen now on our site or wherever you get your podcasts: https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/vigdis-hjorth-repetition-podcast-interview/

Post-apocalyptic Time I.                 “How did we end up in this hell?” is the question every Iranian I know asks. As I write these words, on the fifth day of the U.S.–Israel invasion of Iran, I am no longer certain…

"As I write these words, on the fifth day of the U.S.–Israel invasion of Iran, I am no longer certain what remains of the country in which I grew up."

Shahram Khosravi on Iranian life under constant rupture.

Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...

The US and Israel have launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region.

Join us for an urgent discussion on March 10, at 1pm EST/6pm UK. RSVP at the link below!

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

some forthcoming @versobooks.bsky.social releases!

+ WORKERS AND THE WORLD: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within by Lorenzo Feltrin, out June 2
+ THE RULERS: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud by Cecilia Rikap, out August 4

let me know if you’d like a review copy!