Verso Covers

André Jolles, Simple Forms . Designed by Practise . Simple Forms is nearly a century old, but this is its first English translation. Jolles identified nine “simple forms” as the building...

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China Miéville, October . Design by Andrea Guinn . Two in a row by Andrea Guinn! No surprise, she’s so great, etc etc. You can read the blurb below on We Want Everything, below, for more on ...

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Nanni Balestrini, We Want Everything . Design by Andrea Guinn . Every time I propose using Andrea Guinn for a cover, Verso’s marketing manager Anne immediately perks up. “Andrea! She is my...

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Emanuele Severino, The Essence of Nihilism . Design by Raf Rennie . I’ve been art directing Verso for over five years, and in that time I’ve tried to support designers who treat graphic des...

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Owen Hatherley, The Ministry of Nostalgia . Design by Rumors . The book’s in opposition to the strangling nostalgic impulse that’s been dominant in recent years, with the most ubiquitous e...

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Douglas Murphy, Last Futures . Design by Neil Donnelly . Last Futures investigates radical ideas of utopia from the 1960s and 70s — geodesic domes, moon colonies, the automation of work, all ...

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Hal Foster, Bad New Days . Design by Carvalho Bernau . Something gets me every time about this Isa Genzken plate, glossy and set in a frame against the uncoated noise of the cover background.

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Boris Groys, In the Flow . Design by Everything Studio . Groys on art in the age of the internet, the “thingless medium”.

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Design by thusly

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Samo Tomšič, The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan . Design by Keetra Dean Dixon .

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Juliet Jacques, Trans . Design and illustration by Joanna Walsh . A perfect cover.

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Rohini Mohan, The Seasons of Trouble . Design by David Gee . I love the hardcover (top), but the paperback (bottom, out this fall) has an otherworldly light. I only wish we could have kept the ...

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Christine Delphy, Separate and Dominate . Design by Jennifer Daniel . This is a collection of essays arguing that feminism has been put to anti-Muslim ends, especially in France, where Delphy li...

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Matthew Beaumont, Night Walking . Design by Jamie Keenan . A history of London by night, mostly viewed through the lens of 19th century literature. It’s a great read, rich & lurid, and Jamie ...

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Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft . Design by Michael Oswell . This is a book about infrastructure and power, about the space that exists outside the grasp of the public, and about how to use ...

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McKenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street . Design by Adly Elewa . Under the pavement, the beach! A new cover for the paperback release of Wark’s survey of the Situationist International. ...

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Verso Futures . Series design by Erik Carter . Verso Futures is a forthcoming collection of contemporary theory. We wanted the cover system to be clearly distinct from the restrained Radical Th...

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Radio Benjamin , edited by Lecia Rosenthal. Design by Isaac Tobin . In addition to everything else, Walter Benjamin wrote for radio. Not everything survived, but what remains has been transcrib...

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Jacques Rancière, The Intervals of Cinema . Design by Jessica Svendsen . The first English translation of Rancière’s “Les écarts du cinéma”. Écarts appears to be a tricky word to ...

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Radical Thinkers, set 9 . Design by Rumors . This is the ninth volume of Radical Thinkers, making it the sixth since my initial redesign. It also marks a change in format. No longer an annual c...

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