After winning the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1972, John Berger spoke out against the award’s historic roots in Caribbean exploitation: “This is why I have to turn this prize against itself.”
On an incognito yet convivial art which animates even when there is no promise of survival
"The simple issue around which all the history of the rest of the century will concentrate: are we in the privileged quarter of the world, going to continue to exploit the other three quarters?"John Berger in England for Oxford Vietnam Week (Jan. 25 – 31, 1967).
"Impossible now to think of train travel without a kind of tenderness - as if that is what love is: arrival after arrival". A conversation between the writers Anne Michaels and John Berger, in dialogue with a photographic journey through southern Bohemia, evokes the intimate meanings and shared be
What might we hope for from life? Watching the London riots from afar John Berger finds a small passport that lets him visualise what is missing from a looter's expectations
We are now spectators of the latest - and perhaps penultimate - chapter of the 60 year old conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. About the complexities of this
Last night I watched the president address the nation. Earlier in the week 3 million people - mostly students - were demonstrating in the streets against the new law which
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How is it I am still alive? Ill tell you Im alive because theres a temporary shortage of death. This is said with a grin, which
The worst cruelties of life are its killing injustices. John Berger on poverty, desire, storytelling, and the futures gift to the present.
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Susan Sontag - quicksilver darting between past and future to shed light on
the otherwise dark present -
and your conscience that travelled almost at the speed of light.
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openDemocracy: Why do you think that the current presidential election in America is so significant that it demands people turn out and vote?
John Berger: I can count a good
Fahrenheit 9/11 is astounding. Not so much as a film although it is a cunning and moving film but as an event. Many commentators try to dismiss the event
