Verso Beach Reads
Some light reading to slide into your suitcase this summer!
The sun is shining, summer is here, and you know what that means - time to crack open your copy of The Political Writings by Karl Marx.
As a friendly reminder: Verso Book Club members enjoy 50% off all titles year-round on purchases of any size. It's a great deal and the best way to support radical publishing!
New Releases
Hot off the press, featuring urgent interventions on industrialization, Black visual culture, and the housing crisis.
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Verso's Big Theory Summer Reads
Bring a sturdy beach bag and you’re all set!
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I don't dream of labour... I dream of the beach
I wasn’t born to work. I was born to frolic on the beach and sit and think and read and live.
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Love in the Age of Capitalism
What’s love got to do with it? Everything! Essential reads on how capital influences and forms our intimate relationships.
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It's Getting Too Hot to Handle
Will capitalists ever voluntarily walk away from hundreds of trillions of dollars in fossil fuels unless they are forced to do so? And, if not, who will apply the necessary pressure?
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What comes next in the UK? Post-Election reading
Books to understand Britain’s political landscape, far-right populism, and how we can build our own Left movements.
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Why Don't We Just Print More Money?
Infuriate the finance bros in your life with a cohesive, well sourced, socialist economics
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Free Palestine: Verso Reading
A reading list on the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation.
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Verso Fiction
Revolutionary stories, with an international focus, beautifully written.
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Silly Little Walk Season
What if we took our silly little walks a little more seriously? As Eric Hazan wrote: ‘To saunter is a science,‘it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.’
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School's Out and the Students are our Teachers
The school year is ending, but the ongoing occupation of campuses by student activists for Palestine around the world highlights that their political education is ongoing!
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