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Verso

New Left Books was launched by New Left Review in 1970, and took as its logo the Tatlin Tower—a planned monument to the Third International. Focusing initially on translating works of European political and social theory, economics and philosophy, the list during that decade included Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Lucio Colletti, Henri Lefebvre, Georg Lukács, Ernest Mandel, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre and Max Weber, as well as major original works by Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton, Tom Nairn and Raymond Williams. NLB’s list challenged established opinions both in the United States and the Soviet Union, and their respective satellites, as well as providing important critical analyses of China, India and South America. The publishing house was always intended to be far broader in its reach than NLR. An early bestseller was Against Method by Paul Feyeraband.

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Genres published 

  • Fiction / NonFiction

Writing styles published 

  • Scholarly / Philosophy / Religious / Political / Contemporary / Memoir / Biography

Publication Formats 

  • Book / eBook

Languages published 

  • English

Source Languages 

  • Any
Publisher Details

Region: 

all

Accept unsolicited submissions: 

Yes

Permit online submissions: 

Yes

Permit simultaneous submissions: 

Yes

Reading Periods: 

rolling

Payments: 

  • Unknown

Publish reprints: 

No

Calls for Submissions: 

none