The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of the acclaimed 2021 film Drive My Car, have long been filled with allusions to literature and the theatre. Here, Greg Gerke writes on the development of Hamaguchi's work, from 2015's Happy Hour to today, and his cinematic and literary influences.
Come to the 2022 Historical Materialism conference, 10-13 November!
We are pleased to announce the launch of Verso Libros – Verso Books’ new Spanish-language publishing partnership in Latin America and Spain.
We are already living in the throes of an intensifying climate crisis that will define our lifetimes. In this in-depth interview, Andreas Malm reflects on the state of the climate movement today and what demands Left climate activists should be putting forward.
In the latest issue: Susan Watkins on Ukraine, Göran Therborn on the global left, Frigga Haug on learning and more!
On Sunday 30th October Lula, the leader of the Brazilian Workers' Party, marked a remarkable political comeback, winning a third term as Brazilian president over the right-wing incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro. But as Oliver Basciano writes, the Brazil Lula will now lead is a very different one from that of his first term in 2003, with fresh challenges ahead for the Brazilian left.
In this interview, the great historian Carlo Ginzburg reflects on Italy's current right-wing insurgency and the role history can play in helping us ask questions about the world we live in.
For Jacques Rancière, the future of anti-capitalist resistance lies in the proliferation and expansion of autonomous democratic movements like the gilets jaunes in France, Occupy Wall Street in the US, and the indignados in Madrid. In this interview, he explains why only authentically egalitarian movements can transform today's society.
A guide to all our new titles coming out in November!
With the victory of Lula in Brazil, we give you 12 books for both understanding Brazil and Latin American, as well as books to continue the struggle elsewhere.
Invite these women in, and let their voices pull on you: we pick our favourite witchy quotes from The Verso Book of Feminism.