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What was your favorite book of the year?

Max Blue looks back at @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and Susan Schwartzenberg’s prescient ‘Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism’ 25 years after it was published by @versobooks.bsky.social: sf.gazetteer.co/memories-of-...

Of all the books we've read this year, these are our favorites. See the 2025 Verso staff picks!

Here are recommended reads about the United States — perfect for the history buff on your gift list, or anyone looking to learn more about how the U.S got to where it is today. n.pr/451pODt

“All the way through Austen’s novels you have references to women working.” Women’s work in Jane Austen’s novels is ubiquitous, continuous, and economically very important. youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...

What are you reading this weekend?

What was Jane Austen’s stance on slavery? Kate Evans explores the anti-slavery sentiments in her novels, and its limits. youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...

In his short life, Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. His scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. All his books are part of our End of Year Sale - up to 50% off!

I am so pleased, grateful, and overwhelmed by how lucky I am to announce that my 2nd book, *The Abolition Unconscious*, is officially under contract with @versobooks.bsky.social (!!!). I’m still awhile from completing the manuscript, but keep an eye out in 2027-2028 for its release.

Now available for preorder: The Alibi of Capital by Timothy Mitchell Stealing the future and concealing the theft – capitalism’s method, as examined by the author of the acclaimed Carbon Democracy

The great historian Arno Mayer passed away two years ago today. In 2024, Mathias Fuelling wrote about Mayer's sustained intellectual legacy. "Reading Mayer, one sees that he was often ahead of the curve, presaging arguments and framings years or even decades before they became widely accepted."

Kate Evans describes how central fabric is to the story of Empire, and the threads that connect this to Jane Austen’s life and works. youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...

An extraordinary book about Algeria, France, “citizenship,” and faithfulness. May Fernand Iveton’s name never be forgotten. @versobooks.bsky.social www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...

@cartoonkate.bsky.social looks at how Jane Austen’s family (and their socioeconomic status) nurtured the iconic author’s writing.

Just putting this here, with no reason in particular… and, why yes, I do know of a book that would make a great gift for anyone on your list….

FREE HELL! "Best of This is Hell!: 2025" as chosen by you continues. This time, it's our October interview with Cory Doctorow on "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (@versobooks.bsky.social) Join us throughout the Hellidaze www.patreon.com/posts/best-o...

Who was the real Jane Austen behind the twee, touristy image we so often see? Kate Evans threads together the patchwork pieces of Austen’s own words to tell her story youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...

Austen’s relationship to marriage and success wasn’t as you might assume. In Patchwork, Kate Evans explores who Austen really was, and what her life looked like. youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...

Can we build parliamentary socialism in Britain and save the nation from becoming a failed state?

Here's a sneak peek at the Table of Contents for Heatwave Issue 2. We're excited for this issue and can't wait for you to read it. Subscribe before tomorrow (12/12) to get your copy!

VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.

we had a lot of fun picking books from Verso’s archive. and i got to talk about two absolute classics, Ellen M. Wood’s Origins of Capitalism and Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities. many thanks to Verso for showing us around and for letting us give our little mini-lectures

they’re doing Verso Closet now???

VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.

I guess i can always count on the Danish comrades to hype my book 🥹 And it just so happens that @versobooks.bsky.social is having their end of year sale! 🎄

Winter Non Fiction edit for Shortlist feat. @kdenkwrites.com @johnhiggs.bsky.social @katieprescott.bsky.social Cameron Crowe, Giles Tremlett, Mat Watson, Katy Hessel, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Matthew Costa @plutopress.bsky.social Joel Wainwright @versobooks.bsky.social www.shortlist.com/books/10-new...

What Justice on a Burning Planet? Join Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and @learning2live.bsky.social for an urgent conversation on climate catastrophe and the left. With @versobooks.bsky.social. Friday, Dec 19th at 12PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Took advantage of @versobooks.bsky.social's end of year sale (50% off when you order 5+ books!). Bought books by G. Eley, A. Hanieh, A. Malm, @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, J. W. Moore, M. Neocleous, D. Sassoon, @leninology.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social. 🎅 🤶 🎄 ☃️

Davis' LA texts are foundational for my Bret Easton Ellis book and his other work is first class too. Unbelievably perceptive analyst, meticulous, exhaustive researcher, outstanding writer too. A proper titan.

The ancient Greeks had a machine for democracy, the kleroterion, today democracies are dominated by the tech of financial markets. My conversation about capitalism, class analysis, and democratic theory - first published in the Swedish magazine Röda Rummet, now in English at @versobooks.bsky.social

Mike Davis's books are all part of our End of Year Sale for up to 50% off! "He lit the torch; it’s time for us, now, to carry it on." - Ciarán O'Rourke

A strong labor movement demanded unified elites. Organized business in turn kept the GOP’s madness contained to ensure a favorable business climate. Today the Republican Party’s descent into chaos is a product of capitalist fragmentation.

On December 14th we'll be hosting an online reading group with John Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend. They’ll be discussing Berger’s works on political resistance and what art tells us about ourselves.

ICYMI: Ryan Breeden's review of Kevin B. Anderson's The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) is still live on our website.

Interesting arguments Durand wrt the neo-feudalism debate www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...

Gillian Rose passed away on this day 30 years ago, at age 48. "[Rose] showed that philosophy could combine a search for the truth with the quest for a meaningful life." - Martin Jay

Hyper-Zionism: How Israel became Germany's 'reason' for being - https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/hyper-zionism-how-israel-became-germanys-reason-being

On December 14th we'll be hosting an online reading group with John Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend. They’ll be discussing Berger’s works on political resistance and what art tells us about ourselves.

Reply to @evgenymorozov.bsky.social:"Far from “capitalism doing what capitalism does best,” in the era of late capitalism competitive dynamics bring a systemic mutation marked by extreme centralisation, pivoting on the forces of knowledge." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social

If you really dug ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, I urge you to check out HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE.

"I’m not trying to recount history to memorialize it. I’m trying to offer a road map of the past so that we can say, 'What happens next?'" Tess Pollok interviews Lauren O’Neill-Butler about her new essay collection: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/american-action-then-and-now/

Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:

Wooo! @versobooks.bsky.social sale purchase came in this morning 😍

On December 14th the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with John Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend.

Your Party: The Return of the Left by Oliver Eagleton is out now! "Finally, a serious blueprint for a party that wields power for the many, not the few. This book must be read and discussed broadly." — Yanis Varoufakis

On Fri. 12/19 I'll join Andreas Malm and Wim Carton to discuss our new books, the deadly combination of accelerating global warming and stalling political action, and what is to be done from a left perspective. Moderated by @learning2live.bsky.social via @haymarketbooks.org & @versobooks.bsky.social

“Chief among the book’s documentary achievements is its laying out of the breadth of the devastation wrought by the Israeli government and its (mostly) Western enablers.” —Coleson Smith reviews Gaza: The Story of a Genocide @versobooks.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2025/11/revi...

On the arrival of John Berger’s centenary, the Verso Book Club will be hosting a conversation on his vital contributions to worlds of art history, politics, translation, and more.