Ways of Seeing: In Celebration of John Berger | The Verso Book Club Reading Group
In anticipation of John Berger’s centenary, the Verso Book Club will be hosting a conversation on his vital contributions to worlds of art history, politics, translation, and more.
John Berger (1926–2017) was a storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, and one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. 2026 marks the arrival of his centenary, and we are proud to be reissuing his classic works including a tribute to the potential of political art, an investigation of the fate of migrant workers, and a story of love and resistance.
On December 14th at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with John Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend. They’ll be discussing Berger’s works on political resistance and what art tells us about ourselves.
“John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things till we see what we thought wasn’t there. But above all he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master.” —Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things
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