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Rosianna Halse Rojas and Kate Evans discuss Jane Austen's quilt, fandom culture, and the colonial histories that are simultaneously everywhere in Austen's work and left out of the picture.
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now!
youtu.be/OFKr8oIhSnU?...
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now!
youtu.be/OFKr8oIhSnU?...
Patchwork: Jane Austen and the threads of empire
YouTube video by Rosianna Halse Rojas
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November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Rosianna Halse Rojas and Kate Evans discuss Jane Austen's quilt, fandom culture, and the colonial histories that are simultaneously everywhere in Austen's work and left out of the picture.
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now!
youtu.be/OFKr8oIhSnU?...
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen is out now!
youtu.be/OFKr8oIhSnU?...
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On November 19, Verso Books celebrated the launch of its spring 2026 catalog at its offices in Manhattan. In attendance were Verso staffers (from l.) Jeanne Tao, Eva Sotomayor, Tim Thomas, Lana Pochiro, Colby Groves, and Anthony Korum.
(TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter)
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November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
On November 19, Verso Books celebrated the launch of its spring 2026 catalog at its offices in Manhattan. In attendance were Verso staffers (from l.) Jeanne Tao, Eva Sotomayor, Tim Thomas, Lana Pochiro, Colby Groves, and Anthony Korum.
(TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter)
(TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter)
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In an article originally published by @versobooks.bsky.social, Vashti editor Kate Greenberg reflects on the impending demolition of the village of Umm al-Khair. www.vashtimedia.com/umm-al-khair...
The death that keeps on going
Months after the murder of activist Awdah Hathaleen, Israel's plan to demolish Umm al-Khair exposes a ruthless new level of impunity in the West Bank.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In an article originally published by @versobooks.bsky.social, Vashti editor Kate Greenberg reflects on the impending demolition of the village of Umm al-Khair. www.vashtimedia.com/umm-al-khair...
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"With some basic lessons in physics, Malm and Carton show that much of what gets proposed now for coping with the climate crisis will not work." — Kim Stanley Robinson
Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou
Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"With some basic lessons in physics, Malm and Carton show that much of what gets proposed now for coping with the climate crisis will not work." — Kim Stanley Robinson
Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
November 30 @ 2pm est - be there!
"With some basic lessons in physics, Malm and Carton show that much of what gets proposed now for coping with the climate crisis will not work." — Kim Stanley Robinson
Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou
Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
www.versobooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
November 30 @ 2pm est - be there!
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“[Vigdis Hjorth’s] If Only is an anti-love story, a reverse romance: instead of hoping and waiting for the lovers to get together, you dread their being finally united.” —@ursulind.bsky.social
Clarity and Delusion | Ursula Lindsey
The Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth has a gift for depicting painful, confusing, and mortifying relationships.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“[Vigdis Hjorth’s] If Only is an anti-love story, a reverse romance: instead of hoping and waiting for the lovers to get together, you dread their being finally united.” —@ursulind.bsky.social
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NEW FREE HELL!
An in-depth talk w/@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social).
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An in-depth talk w/@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social).
Here's the interview:
thisishell.com/interviews/1...
Here's the entire show:
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The Downfall Of Liberal Civilization / Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization”, published by Verso Books. Seymour discusses the ideologies amplifying ...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
NEW FREE HELL!
An in-depth talk w/@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social).
Here's the interview:
thisishell.com/interviews/1...
Here's the entire show:
thisishell.com/episodes/1872
Support our commercial-free listener supported work at patreon.com/thisishell
An in-depth talk w/@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social).
Here's the interview:
thisishell.com/interviews/1...
Here's the entire show:
thisishell.com/episodes/1872
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ONE WEEK TO GO 👇
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Hear from the authors: Prof. Adam Hanieh, Dr Robert Knox,
Dr Rafeef Ziadah
⏰26 Nov | 17:00–18:30
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/resis...
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Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Hear from the authors: Prof. Adam Hanieh, Dr Robert Knox,
Dr Rafeef Ziadah
⏰26 Nov | 17:00–18:30
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/resis...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
ONE WEEK TO GO 👇
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Hear from the authors: Prof. Adam Hanieh, Dr Robert Knox,
Dr Rafeef Ziadah
⏰26 Nov | 17:00–18:30
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/resis...
@versobooks.bsky.social
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Hear from the authors: Prof. Adam Hanieh, Dr Robert Knox,
Dr Rafeef Ziadah
⏰26 Nov | 17:00–18:30
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/resis...
@versobooks.bsky.social
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What if “saving the economy” now means sacrificing the conditions for human life?
Andreas Malm explains why the climate’s hard limits force a choice: either we strand fossil assets and shut down extraction or we strand entire regions and peoples.
youtu.be/shTNvH_Is0U
Andreas Malm explains why the climate’s hard limits force a choice: either we strand fossil assets and shut down extraction or we strand entire regions and peoples.
youtu.be/shTNvH_Is0U
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
What if “saving the economy” now means sacrificing the conditions for human life?
Andreas Malm explains why the climate’s hard limits force a choice: either we strand fossil assets and shut down extraction or we strand entire regions and peoples.
youtu.be/shTNvH_Is0U
Andreas Malm explains why the climate’s hard limits force a choice: either we strand fossil assets and shut down extraction or we strand entire regions and peoples.
youtu.be/shTNvH_Is0U
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Out now! Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
Revolutions
Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter P...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Out now! Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
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Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is a key argument of my book coming out May 2026 with @versobooks.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is a key argument of my book coming out May 2026 with @versobooks.bsky.social
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Great new book from our Festival Partner @versobooks.bsky.social Check it out! #VivaLaRevolution!
Out now! Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
Revolutions
Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter P...
www.versobooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Great new book from our Festival Partner @versobooks.bsky.social Check it out! #VivaLaRevolution!
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1.) Buy PCB merch! We’re running a tee and sweatshirt preorder campaign through November 25th, and shirts will ship out on December 15th. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/tee-sweatshi...
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
1.) Buy PCB merch! We’re running a tee and sweatshirt preorder campaign through November 25th, and shirts will ship out on December 15th. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/tee-sweatshi...
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Big news... WE'RE MOVING!
Our landlord raised the rent by 50%, so we're moving 4 blocks down the street. We’re sad to leave this space, but there are a few big things we’re pumped about in the new spot including:
Our landlord raised the rent by 50%, so we're moving 4 blocks down the street. We’re sad to leave this space, but there are a few big things we’re pumped about in the new spot including:
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Big news... WE'RE MOVING!
Our landlord raised the rent by 50%, so we're moving 4 blocks down the street. We’re sad to leave this space, but there are a few big things we’re pumped about in the new spot including:
Our landlord raised the rent by 50%, so we're moving 4 blocks down the street. We’re sad to leave this space, but there are a few big things we’re pumped about in the new spot including:
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We're hiring an editor in our New York office!
Apply by December 1st, 2025
Apply by December 1st, 2025
Job Openings
US Editor Verso Books is looking for an Editor to join the team in Verso’s New York office. This role will be responsible for acquiring and editing books for the Verso list, which covers a wide range ...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We're hiring an editor in our New York office!
Apply by December 1st, 2025
Apply by December 1st, 2025
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We have three new titles this week: Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin, Revolutions by Donald Sassoon and Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard J. Davis
This Week's New Titles
Buy one of our new titles and save 30% on related books from our catalogue! This week we are publishing Hate by Seyda Kurt and Multitudes by Dan Hancox.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We have three new titles this week: Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin, Revolutions by Donald Sassoon and Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard J. Davis
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Utterly compelling, deeply alarming. Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's The Long Heat (following Overshoot from last year) sets out the extent to which we are fucked. The planet is overheating. Fossil-fuel capitalism is doing it, and it is not stopping. From @versobooks.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Utterly compelling, deeply alarming. Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's The Long Heat (following Overshoot from last year) sets out the extent to which we are fucked. The planet is overheating. Fossil-fuel capitalism is doing it, and it is not stopping. From @versobooks.bsky.social
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"The surging fortunes of the far right are intimately tied to a racist & authoritarian politics that blames immigrants for environmental degradation & will only intensify when climate catastrophe can no longer be denied." @alfatau.bsky.social talks with the authors of The Long Heat @inthesetimes.com
The Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate Politics
Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.
inthesetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"The surging fortunes of the far right are intimately tied to a racist & authoritarian politics that blames immigrants for environmental degradation & will only intensify when climate catastrophe can no longer be denied." @alfatau.bsky.social talks with the authors of The Long Heat @inthesetimes.com
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This book from @versobooks.bsky.social is interesting to think with.
"The Eye of the Master" argues that the code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's "calculating engines" of the industrial age & in recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance.
The Eye of the Master
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This book from @versobooks.bsky.social is interesting to think with.
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As COP30 unfolds, authors of "The Long Heat," Malm and Carton, warn that “tech fixes” are masking a deeper political crisis: fossil capital still calling the shots.
@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
The Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate Politics
Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.
inthesetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
As COP30 unfolds, authors of "The Long Heat," Malm and Carton, warn that “tech fixes” are masking a deeper political crisis: fossil capital still calling the shots.
@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
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Ursula Lindsey (@ursulind.bsky.social) on buried memories and unspeakable facts in Vigdis Hjorth’s novels
Clarity and Delusion | Ursula Lindsey
The Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth has a gift for depicting painful, confusing, and mortifying relationships.
www.nybooks.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ursula Lindsey (@ursulind.bsky.social) on buried memories and unspeakable facts in Vigdis Hjorth’s novels
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“The [online] platforms that appear to serve users hungry for information—and did serve them, at first—now go to extreme lengths to seize attention.” —James Gleick
How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick
The Internet was not meant to suck.
www.nybooks.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
“The [online] platforms that appear to serve users hungry for information—and did serve them, at first—now go to extreme lengths to seize attention.” —James Gleick
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We're hiring an editor in our New York office!
Apply by December 1st, 2025
Apply by December 1st, 2025
Job Openings
US Editor Verso Books is looking for an Editor to join the team in Verso’s New York office. This role will be responsible for acquiring and editing books for the Verso list, which covers a wide range ...
www.versobooks.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We're hiring an editor in our New York office!
Apply by December 1st, 2025
Apply by December 1st, 2025
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Looking forward to this conversation with Filippo (a coauthor of mine on comics and climate change from a few years ago) next week about his new book Thirst: The Quest to Solve the Global Water Crisis, out now with @versobooks.bsky.social. Join us!
Join us next week for a session on global water infrastructure with Filippo Menga & others - online Tuesday 17 Nov at 12pm GMT. Link below
Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud
Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Looking forward to this conversation with Filippo (a coauthor of mine on comics and climate change from a few years ago) next week about his new book Thirst: The Quest to Solve the Global Water Crisis, out now with @versobooks.bsky.social. Join us!
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Boris Groys examines how Alexandre Kojève made sense of the nothingness of human existence.
What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)
Today, the notion and status of the human have become more and more problematic. We speak about human history as the epoch of the Anthropocene—an epoch that has led to the current global ecological…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Boris Groys examines how Alexandre Kojève made sense of the nothingness of human existence.