John berger

Andy Merrifield pays tribute to John Berger, who passed away aged 90 on 2 January 2017. John died yesterday. I’ll remember his voice, his laugh, his charm and generosity. His words. Stripped-down words, mystical and carefully chosen words, earthy words, fierce words. They’ll always grab us, make us think, feel and act,

On the eve of his 90th birthday, one of the most influential writers of his generation talks about migration, Brexit, growing old – and his fondness for texting

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When Joshua Sperling’s biography of John Berger arrived at my door, I approached it with trepidation. I’d known Berger for more than forty years, and biographers, having amassed reams of information about a life, may render it in ways that make it unrecognizable to friends or family. Upon his death in January 2017, many of Berger’s British obituarists, on both the right and the left, engaged in settling decades-old political or art world scores. Berger had not only escaped the confines of…

Tom Overton reflects on the life of a great storyteller with contributions on his art criticism, broadcasting and fiction

Ben Lerner on the writer and critic John Berger, who died earlier this week, at the age of ninety.

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John Berger. 'It's not just a question of tact that one then says, well, perhaps it is possible to tell that story,' but 'it's because, after that death, one can read that life.