Books published by Verso Books

How working-class socialist women changed the course of American history.

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernity

The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy by one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively through the neighbouring countries of Utilitaria, Communitaria and Libertaria, in his quest to find the best of all possible worlds. Cut loose from the confines of his ivory tower, this wandering professor is made to confront the perplexed state of modern thinking in this dazzling comedy of ideas.

The violence and destruction hiding behind the obsession with immunity

Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality.

A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it.

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19

Continuing Patrick Wolfe's work on settler colonialism

Democratizing finance is the means by which we can democratize our economy

A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in China