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Review of Chantal Jaquet, Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction
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Tokens: a Letter from the Editor
One of our October Verso Book Club selections. -
Marc Augé, anthropologist of contemporary ‘non-places’
French anthropologist Marc Augé died on 24 July, leaving behind an important legacy. -
English Cricket is racist, sexist and elitist – to change it must learn from the grassroots game
As the recently published Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket report confirmed, cricket in Britain is a deeply elitist, racist and sexist sport, dominated by a white, male establishment linked by the old school tie. Here, Sam Berkson powerfully analyses the history of the sport and says that the only way to save it is to learn from the sports' grassroots. -
Cover Stories: Crooked Plow
Brazilian illustrator and visual artist, Paola Saliby, talks us through the design process for Crooked Plow. -
Choose your side. Choose your weapons
Published 20 years after the 1984-85 miners' strike that it portrays, David Peace's kaleidoscopic novel GB84 depicted the affective realities of the struggle as it was fought by pickets, policemen. Alexander Curtis asks what the literature can teach us about the past and present of class war. -
The Plague: Living Death in Our Times w/ Jacqueline Rose
The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. -
Climate, Environment, and Ecology: Verso Student Reading
Featuring Andreas Malm, Ann Pettifor, and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz; up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.
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Theodor Adorno: A Leading Figure of the Frankfurt School
Complete your Adorno bookshelf with this list of his most essential works. -
Political Theory: Verso Student Reading
Featuring Walter Rodney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Theodor Adorno, Erik Olin Wright, Nancy Fraser, and Benedict Anderson. Up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.
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Ellen Meiksins Wood: Groundbreaking Marxist Historian and Political Thinker
From The Origin of Capitalism to The Retreat from Class, no undergraduate reading list is complete without the work of Ellen Meiksins Wood.
