Books published by Verso Books

A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean's enigmatic heart

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small town

A searing indictment of modern sexual politics.

How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connected

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo

How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy

Verso's classic Mapping series, published in association with New Left Review, collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world and delineates the controversies among the most important scholars in each field.

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.

A new manifesto for cyberfeminism

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us

A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard

A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

Shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the 19th century, rather than in biblical times when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation. This book demonstrates the construction of a nationalist myth and the collective mystification that this requires.

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis's first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx's inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the causeand solutionof the planetary environmental crisis?Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx's theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a ';lost Marx,' whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the ';middle landscape' of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the ';anthropocene,' which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism's failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (18801934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

What if the people seized the means of climate production?

A forensic look at the changing landscape of American cities

A narrative history of council housing - from slums to Grenfell Tower

A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow.

Originally published in Germany by Editions Nautilus as Vergewaltigung: Aspekte eines Verbrechens, 2016.

A major rereading of Marx's critique of political economy, fully updated.

A major new work from the world's leading writer on artLandscapes, the companion volume to John Berger's highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves. ';Berger's work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,' writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger challenges readers to rethink their every assumption about the role of creativity in our lives. In this brilliant collection of diverse piecesessays, short stories, poems, translationswhich spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He pays homage to the writers and thinkers who infuenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. His expansive perspective takes in artistic movements and individual artistsfrom the Renaissance to the presentwhile never neglecting the social and political context of their creation. Berger pushes at the limits of art writing, demonstrating beautifully how his artist's eye makes him a storyteller in these essays, rather than a critic. With ';landscape' as an animating, liberating metaphor rather than a rigid defnition, this collection surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished John Berger's understanding of the world. Landscapesalongside Portraitscompletes a tour through the history of art that will be an intellectual benchmark for many years to come.