John Berger is perhaps the most challenging British writer of his generation. Interdisciplinary, political, and always provocative in the deepest sense, Berger's writings in a wide variety of genres and his way of life have constituted a distinctive...

John Berger was born on 5 November 1926 in London, son of S. J. D. Berger and Miriam Branson Berger. Twice married and the father of three children, he now lives in the French Jura. Berger has not confined himself as a writer to any single genre or...

John Berger is staring up at the elegant Nash ceiling, biting his lips, struggling to find the words. Words have always been a struggle, he explains, whether it be for an article, or one or another of the 13 books of his that are...

ONCE IN EUROPA By John Berger Pantheon. 192 pp. $14.95 SOON, NOSTALGIA will be another name for Europe. These marvelous stories of European country life in the late 20th century are permeated with a sense of loss. Even as we read them, the world...

Almay Ad (Reproduced in John Berger's Ways of Seeing, 1977) "The oral-sex craze—and in particular girls' insistence that blowjobs 'aren't sex'—has often been blamed on Bill Clinton and his semantic calisthenics during the Kenneth Starr investigation. But even if teen girls were looking to...

Graham Nickson asks for trouble. Sunsets and sunrises, the subjects of his watercolors on display at the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, usually bring about cornball associations: hotel-room prints, the picture over Grandma’s sofa, postcards, amateur photographs and (shudder) happy little Bob Ross. Mr. Nickson puts it mildly...

Since the publication in this country of John Berger's prizewinning novel G. in 1972, his reputation here among leftists, and leftist artists especially, has grown steadily; and with good reason. Today, the example of his work over the last twenty-odd years (beginning, significantly enough perhaps, from around the time of his departure from Britain's stifling CP) constitutes, in effect, the first major set of standards for Marxist literary practice, and creative cultural practice in general, i...

[G] can be quite sententious, and there is some fine writing here which creates doubts: what does it mean to credit someone with absolute desires who has been declared to be without needs? What does it mean to say that his desires are not rooted in him, as are those of the other men mentioned? But the general picture is clear enough. If G. is God's gift to women, it's a gift that is rapidly removed from each in turn, though these lightning departures do not spoil the miraculous cures. His depa...

It is difficult to know how to describe John Berger's [A Seventh Man]. The cover proclaims it to be 'the story of a migrant worker in Europe', while the title-page maintains that it is 'a book of images and words about the experiences of migrant workers in Europe'…. Although it is sometimes difficult to separate Mr Berger's economics from his fiction, it is at least evident that what he and his friends have produced is not so much a book, more what the Americ...