**This essay originally appeared in a collection published by Lawrence & Wishart in 1978 entitled Rebels and Their Causes: Essays in Honour of A. L. Morton. With their permission, Verso is publish...

The grand, gruesome theories of René Girard

The impossibility of working-class achievement.

Tuesday 18 April 2023 - JOINT PRESS RELEASE by Éditions La Fabrique (Paris) and Verso Books (London)  We are writing this press release to protest at the scandalous treatment of the French citizen...

A new book by Terry Eagleton revisits a group of figures who reinvented literary criticism in the tumultuous 20th century.

The majority of our list is non-fiction, and we do not consider unsolicited fiction submissions. Please limit your proposal to fifteen pages, and include all of the following: A page or two that...

Image: Jon Rafman, You Are Standing in an Open Field (Pandemonium), 2020 Unfortunately, I have to report that downtown New York does indeed have a cohesive avant-garde. Here is an insular community,...

‘Rob Harrison’ reappeared in woman’s life in 2014, before disappearing again

Daniel Ward: I feel I can only begin speaking with you about film, and Pasolini in particular, by asking about some closing lines from your book Farewell to an Idea. In the conclusion, just before...

In Alan Garner’s work, one discovers a new depth to the landscape, a numinous quality that belies its scenic beauty.

The French House has been the beating heart of Soho for over a hundred years. History has been made … J Armstrong needs your support for Save The French House

Serene and ghostly, flanked by burning torches, a wooden raft glides gently across a lake. Aboard is a sarcophagus and its black-robed protector, bound for the base of a 40-foot moss-covered owl that...

Graduates are more likely to migrate to the big cities. But any political benefits from this are decidedly mixed, says writer and editor John Merrick

How a Manchester native rescued “Caliban Shrieks,” Jack Hilton’s working-class opus.

If hyperpolitics offers some tentative clues for analyzing the post-2008 epoch in the West, the concept can only be fully grasped as part of a broader chronology of the political forms—from mass...

Marxism is about leisure, not labour. The only good reason for being a socialist, apart from annoying people you don’t...

On the tenth anniversary of the cultural theorist’s death an unpublished manuscript sheds new light on his thinking.

Tower Hamlets first directly elected mayor. Rahman was a Labour Party member before falling victim to a smear campaign.

Simone Weil is one of the twentieth century’s most compelling – and contradictory – figures. And her reputation continues to grow. Recent years have seen a number of writers return to Weil for...

The parliamentary incantation of the ʻnewʼ is now neatly matched by both popular and academic fascination with the ʻoldʼ. ʻThe pastʼ, as Andreas Huyssen quips, is simply ʻselling better than the...