Economy




  • Hold Everything Dear

    Book 2007
    Books, Economy, Essays, Politics, Workers

    Hold Everything Dear, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 2007.
    A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice. 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. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far ex…
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  • Selected Essays

    Book 2001
    Books, Economy, Essays, Geoff Dyer, Painting, Philosophy, Politics

    Selected Essays, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Geoff Dyer, first edition in 2001.
    Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic – even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays, for the first time, takes a definitive look at his extraordinary career. Far from being footnotes to the main body of work Berger’s essays are absolutely cent…
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  • A Question of Geography

    Book 1987
    Books, Collaborations, Economy, Nella Bielski, Politics, Russia, Theater

    A Question of Geography, play by Nella Bielski and John Berger, first edition in 1987.
    The play centres on Daria Petrovna Petrova, who, having been condemned to ten years in the Gulag, now lives in Magadan in permanent exile. Daria has formed a relationship with a doctor who is also a prisoner, but who is allowed out of the prison camp during the day on account of his profession.
    When the play opens, Daria is …
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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.