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This Week's New Titles

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Verso Books25 March 2025

This Week's New Titles

New titles available this week:

Hold Everything Dear by John Berger

Hold Everything Dear

Hold Everything Dear

by John Berger

From the ‘ War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, ...

Permanent Red by John Berger

Permanent Red

Permanent Red

by John Berger

In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of...

Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger

Bento's Sketchbook

Bento's Sketchbook

by John Berger

The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends ...

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Landscapes

Landscapes

by John Berger

In this brilliant collection of diverse works—essays, short stories, poems, translations—which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of see...
Portraits

Portraits

by John Berger

John Berger, one of the world’s most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artis...
From A to X

From A to X

by John Berger

In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A’ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’s letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the ...
A Writer of Our Time

A Writer of Our Time

by Joshua Sperling

John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers; as a TV pres...
Mural

Mural

by Mahmoud Darwish

Introduction by John Berger

Translated by John Berger and Rema Hammami

Mural is the testimony of one of the most important and powerful poets of our age.Mahmoud Darwish was the unofficial laureate of Palestine. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his w...
The Necessity of Art

The Necessity of Art

by Ernst Fischer

Introduction by John Berger

Translated by Anna Bostock

“Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it.”—Ernst FischerReissued with an introduction by...
War With No End

War With No End

by Phyllis Bennis, John Berger, Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, Tram Nguyen, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco, Ahdaf Soueif and Haifa Zangana

Introduction by Lindsey German and Judith le Blanc

On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair’s “War on Terror.” Six years on, where have the policies of Bush and Blair left us? Bringing ...
In the Mind But Not From There

In the Mind But Not From There

by Gean Moreno

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Al...
Crisis as Form

Crisis as Form

by Peter Osborne

Criticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more subterranean terms of art-judgment are largely neglected on both sid...

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The Arcana of Reproduction

The Arcana of Reproduction

by Leopoldina Fortunati

Translated by Arlen Austin and Sara Colantuono

Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Leopoldina Fortunati’s classic work expands and transforms how we analyze the...
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

by Kevin B. Anderson

In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnologic...
Capital's Grave

Capital's Grave

by Jodi Dean

Bringing together analyses from different fields—law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis—Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn’t just a m...