As for the new top dog in Verso's US office, perhaps we can cross our fingers and hope this bears some relation to the fact that the NLR has been a major outlet for the English-language publication of China's "New Left" intellectuals, and Verso itself put out the authoritative English-language compendium of works by said essayists. See _One China, Many Paths_:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/w-titles/wang_c_one_china.shtml
So, fingers crossed... but I'd rather have my surreptitious entry to off-limits NLR inventory restored.
John Gulick Knoxville, TN Morristown, NJ