This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens and Lahore, to countrysides and mountainscapes.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity, with an introduction by Benjamin Myers
An extended reflection by a masterful essayist on what it means to be human.
Why should an artist's way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist's intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political
A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice
A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing
A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger's writing on mineworkers and miners' strikes celebrating both his acclaimed writing and deep-rooted politics
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a story of love and resistance by one of our era's foremost novelists
A wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political art
A new edition of the seminal classic exploring the fate of migrant workers
Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century offers a rare glimpse into the minds of two intellectual giants of the twentieth century
A brilliant collection of essays, spanning a lifetime's engagement with art