Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Writer Tariq Ali visits our offices in New York City and makes his way through the Verso Archive, sharing memories of publishing with Verso, Mike Davis, and maintaining integrity in challenging times.

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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing over one hundred books a year.

00:00 Introduction
00:27 I, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú
01:14 Trampling Out the Vintage by Frank Bardacke
02:48 City of Quartz by Mike Davis
03:37 An Act of State by William F. Pepper
05:33 American Foreign Policy and its Thinkers by Perry Anderson
06:09 Verso Palestine Pamphlet Series
07:40 You Can't Please All by Tariq Ali
09:18 Outro / A History of Vodka by William Pokhlebkin