The Year in 10 Books | 2024
In the era of polycrisis, these books will help you understand the past tumultuous year, and how to fight in the face of despair.
While it can be tempting to disengage altogether, these books will allow you to deepen your understanding of our political moment, and galvanise readers to fight back.
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Essential for those that are tired of the business-as-usual attitude towards an ever worsening climate crisis.
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As the re-election of Trump demonstrates, unless we understand the deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it.
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Levy's words should be read by anyone who wants to get the heart of this most brutal conflict and see for themselves that silence is no longer possible in the face of such atrocity.
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In the first of the Verso Palestine Pamphlets, Malm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare.
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Hannah Proctor draws on historical resources to find out how revolutionaries and activists of the past kept a grip on hope, and what we might learn from them.
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An urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe.
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Craig Gent shows how AI isn’t replacing workers, but rather monitoring and controlling them, and advances an alternative politics of resistance in the face of this digital control.
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Immediacy explains the recent obsession with immersion and argues that collective will, inspiring ideas, and deliberate construction are the only way out.
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Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far and shortlisted for the International Booker Price 2024.
“An aching yet tender story of our origins of violence, of how we spend our lives trying to bloom love and care from them, and of the language and silence we need to fuel our tending.” — International Booker Prize 2024
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Homelessness is at a new high in the UK. Yet the government’s only solution is to promote homeownership. Bano argues, and reforms must sweep away the landlordism at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life.
