John Berger: A Reading List
A selection of key works on or by one of the most influential authors of our time, John Berger
Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Here we present a reading list of titles by or about Berger, including Joshua Sperling's new biography of Berger, in which he draws on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, as well as Berger's own writings on art, politics, poetry and more.
[book-strip index="1" style="buy"]The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger.
[book-strip index="2" style="buy"]What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity.
[book-strip index="3" style="buy"]A lifetime’s encounter with artists: from prehistoric cave painting to the present.
[book-strip index="4" style="buy"]Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by Berger.
[book-strip index="5" style="buy"]From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance.
[book-strip index="6" style="buy"]In this illustrated color book Berger uses the imaginative space he creates to explore the process of drawing, politics, storytelling and Spinoza’s life and times.
[book-strip index="7" style="buy"]Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker—the material circumstances and the inner experience—and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it.
[book-strip index="8" style="buy"]A beautiful edition of John Berger's first novel, a passionate exploration of the artistic process, and a gripping detective story.
[book-strip index="9" style="buy"]In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A’ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’s letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers.
A beautifully imagined story of love and resistance, by one of the foremost novelists of our age.
[book-strip index="10" style="buy"]Published in conjunction with Stop the War coalition and United for Peace and Justice, War With No End provides an urgent, necessary reflection on the causes and consequences of the ideological War on Terror, including pieces by Phyllis Bennis, John Berger, Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, Tram Nguyen, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco, Ahdaf Soueif, and Haifa Zangana.
