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John Berger

January 2022

  • John Berger.

    Ways of Seeing at 50: how John Berger’s radical TV series changed our view of art

    It was an unlikely choice for BBC Two to schedule against Match of the Day. But Berger’s series and book now forms the bedrock of how we interpret art and advertising

November 2021

  • Ian McKellen in the 2013 film of Lord of the Rings.

    Top 10s
    From Paradise Lost to the Lord of the Rings: top 10 epics in fiction

    From classic tales such as Paradise Lost to ‘counter-epics’ by Anne Carson and Tim O’Brien, these stories lend real grandeur to their subjects

April 2021

  • Geoff Dyer.

    Books that made me
    Geoff Dyer: ‘Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is like the gift of reading itself’

    The author and critic on ‘total bore’ Saul Bellow, how Nietzsche changed his mind, and laughing and crying over Jean Rhys

March 2021

  • Non-dog comparisons don’t do her justice ... Zeytin in Stray.

    'What appointments did these dogs have to keep?': long lunches and brief liaisons in a radical new dogumentary

    To mark National Puppy Day, Elizabeth Lo’s acclaimed film Stray gives humans rare insight into the canine gaze, courtesy of homeless mutts in Istanbul

January 2021

  • ‘Journey of discovery’ … documentary maker Mike Dibb, centre, with John Berger. A new Whitechapel retrospective traces his influence.

    Lorca, Hockney, Byatt, Berger – how Mike Dibb got the greats to open up

    He’s revered for shooting Ways of Seeing with John Berger, but Mike Dibb has made films about all the giants of culture – as well as Wimbledon tennis balls. He looks back on a dazzling career

December 2019

  • Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall holds a lamb in Return to River Cottage on Channel 4.

    Further reading
    Can food be socially just and cheap? The best books on sustainable eating

    Farmer and writer Kristin Kimball chooses her favourite works on how to eat better, including making use of leftovers and selecting quality meat

November 2019

  • Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019<br>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 20: English writer Max Porter attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 on August 20, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

    Books that made me
    Max Porter: ‘Books don’t tend to make me cry. Sentimental TV adverts, on the other hand...'

    The author of Lanny and Grief is a Thing With Feathers on the influence of John Berger and his admiration for translators

July 2019

  • Catrina Davies in shed

    Further reading
    Generation Rent: a writer living in a shed on the best books on the housing crisis

    From Knut Hamsun’s Hunger to Richard McGuire’s profound graphic novel Here, Homesick author Catrina Davies picks her favourites

April 2019

  • Ingrid Burrington’s field guide Networks of New York

    New Ways of Seeing: can John Berger's classic decode our baffling digital age?

    From ‘the cloud’ to invisible beams carrying billions of dollars, our world can often feel like a neverland of terrifying tech. A new radio series is here to help

November 2018

  • Jean Mohr &amp; John Berger - Geneva 18.07.1988 - photo John Christie

    Jean Mohr obituary

    Award-winning photographer and longtime collaborator with the writer John Berger

August 2018

  • Phoebe-Jane Boyd

    Sexy selfies may be lucrative – but they won’t overthrow the patriarchy

    Phoebe-Jane Boyd
    A study of #hot tags on Instagram says it’s about women maximising their lot, but nudity is about control by men, says freelance journalist Phoebe-Jane Boyd

May 2018

  • Beautiful and chastening films … the English intellectual – and radical TV regular – John Berger.

    Thinking outside the box: the sad demise of radical TV

    Gone are the days when public intellectuals would riff on Marx while exposing a hint of calf on telly. But were these all-white mansplaining marathons ever as progressive as they made out?

February 2018

  • The Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul

    BBC looks beyond the west to retell the story of civilisation

    Civilisations – note the plural – reworks the classic 1969 TV series into a truly global history of art

December 2017

  • Illustration by Jackie Morris from the book The Lost Words by Robert MacFarlane, Penguin Random House, by Jackie Morris, 2017

    Best books of 2017
    Best books of 2017: the hits and misses of the publishers’ year

    The Man Booker winner, the diary of a junior doctor and the secret lives of cows ... Which books made their publishers proud – and which ones made them envious?

August 2017

  • John Berger at home in paris in 1999

    Books blog
    Ways of seeing John Berger

    A new exhibition celebrates Berger’s vision through the drawings that were given to him. The room is filled with affection, writes photographer Eamonn McCabe

June 2017

  • Seasons In Quincy ( John Berger)

    The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger review – an unconventional portrait of an unconventional man

  • The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portaits of John Berger, with Tilda Swinton

    The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger review – Tilda Swinton leads lavish praise

January 2017

  • ‘A defining quality of kindness’: John Berger at home in Paris.

    John Berger 1926-2017: an appreciation

    Kate Kellaway recalls a charmed meeting in Paris with the writer, critic and artist – who died last week at 90 – for what turned out to be his last major interview
  • John Berger readily gave permission to adapt A Fortunate Man into a film

    Letter: John Berger was generous with his knowledge

    Giles Oakley writes: John Berger encouraged young people
  • Ways of Seeing Berger.

    'Such freedom is unthinkable today' – my life making television with John Berger

    Mike Dibb had been moved by John Berger’s writing since he was a teen. Then a chance meeting led the two to make seminal TV show Ways of Seeing together – and change the way the whole world saw
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