Verso Books was recently described in Harper's as “Anglo-America's preeminent radical press.” Launched by the New Left Review in 1970 as New Left Books, largely to translate works of European political and social theory, Verso began as a paperback imprint at the end of the seventies and then became NLB's sole imprint. Over the years, Verso has published landmark books by Tariq Ali, Benedict Anderson, Giovanni Arrighi, Robin Blackburn, Robert Brenner, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, Mike Davis, Isaac Deutscher, Paul Feyeraband, Norman Finkelstein, David Harvey, Eric Hobsbawm, Fredric Jameson, Franco Moretti, Edward Said, Rebecca Solnit, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Erik Olin Wright and Slavoj Žižek. Since opening a New York office in the nineties, which moved to Brooklyn in 2007, major new authors have included John Berger, Simon Critchley, Eric Hazan, Owen Jones, John Nichols, Ross Perlin, John Pilger, Shlomo Sand, José Saramago, Eyal Weizman, and Wu Ming.

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Verso Books is currently publishing Artur Domosławski's biography of Ryszard Kapuściński, Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing, José Saramago's The Lives of Things, David Harvey's Rebel Cities, Ross Perlin's Intern Nation, Simon Critchley's Faith of the Faithless, and Keith Gessen and Astra Taylor's Occupy!.

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