Verso
Spring 2010

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Slavoj Zizek

The Invention of the Jewish People
Shlomo Sand

Manituana
Wu Ming



Islams and Modernities (new edition)
by Aziz Al-Azmeh

The Food Wars
by Walden Bello

Music Quickens Time (new in paperback)
by Daniel Barenboim

On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
by Marshall Berman

Hugo Chávez Presents: The Bolívarian Revolution
by Simón Bolívar (Revolutions Series)


An Orchestra Beyond Borders: Voices of the West Eastern Divan Orchestra
by Elena Cheah

The Devil and Mr. Casement: A Crime Against Humanity
by Jordan Goodman

The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat (new edition)
by Stephen Lukes

Hatred of Democracy (new in paperback)
by Jacques Rancière

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (new in paperback)
by Sheila Rowbotham



New School Forum: Radical Thinkers Today
Judith Butler, Simon Critchely, and Jacque Ranciere discuss the importance of critical theory to social movements today. Listen Now



Giovanni Arrighi, 1937–2009

Giovanni Arrighi passed away on Thursday, 18th June. He was one of the foremost scholars of the history and future of capitalism, and author of The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times and Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century. A conference, Dynamics of the Global Crisis, was recently held in his honour in Madrid. Earlier this year David Harvey interviewed Giovanni about his life’s work; it appeared in NLR 56 as “The Winding Paths of Capital.”

A memorial site has been set up by Beverly Silver allowing people to share their memories and stories of Giovanni Arrighi. The site address is: http://www.sympathytree.com/giovanniarrighi1937/.

Peter Gowan, 1946-2009

Peter Gowan passed away on Friday, 12th June. A long standing member of the New Left Review editorial board, a pioneering scholar of Eastern Europe politics and economics and author of The Global Gamble: Washington’s Faustian Bid for World Dominance. To see Misha Glenny’s obituary in The Guardian, click here. In his honour a prize fund for a graduate student at London Metropolitan University has been set up; see the Verso blogsite for information on how to donate.

Chris Harman, 1942-2009
Chris Harman passed away on Saturday, 7th November. A leading British socialist and author of dozens of books and pamphlets on politics, economics, history and the Marxist tradition, including A People’s History of the World. To see Alan Maass’s obituary, click here.


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