The Fire Boom | Mike Davis
Mike Davis’s eerily precinct writing on LA as locus of ecological destruction, taken from his classic work Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.
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Revolutionary Lives | Verso Reading
Biographies and memoirs of people who've lived extraordinary, complex lives including Andrée Blouin, Rigoberta Menchu, and Toussaint Louverture.
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How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
Didier Fassin examines how most Western governments have acquiesced in and contributed to the destruction of Gaza. -
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Ominous Developments Surround Lumumba | Andrée Blouin
“On the eve of independence, this great country had to undergo such things—to write its history in letters of tears and blood. Poor Congo!”
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The Southern Questions series
A new series focusing on decolonisation and its aftermath: featuring Andrée Blouin's autobiography, and Adewale Maja-Pearce's uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy.
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Read what’s on your favourite writers’ bookshelves
Books endorsed by Jeremy Corbyn, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Edward Said, and more!
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Social Murder, Social Rage: the Luigi Mangione Reading List
"If there's an audience with an appetite for blood it was created by the very industry and elites who now condemn it."
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Myths About Israel: Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé joins the Verso Podcast to discuss false histories, apartheid, and genocide. -
New Left Review 150, out now
Matthew Karp charts the continuities underlying Trump’s two victories, probing the causes of voter disengagement at a time of heightened geopolitical tension. -
Best Books of the Year: according to the critics
Critically-acclaimed and included in recent 2024 Best Books round-ups in the Guardian, Financial Times, ArtReview and more.
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Graphic Non-fiction Reading List
Radical biographies and histories, beautifully rendered in artwork.
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SHAME!
The Post-October 7th Case of Toufic Haddad, former Director of the Council for British Research in the Levant Jerusalem Office, the Kenyon Institute.
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