John Berger, Author . Verso $22.95 (197p) ISBN 978-1-84467-288-2
Berger is a Booker prize winner, art critic, journalist, essayist and the acclaimed author of Ways of Seeing
. His latest is an epistolary novel that concerns two characters: Xavier, the alleged founder of a terrorist cell, and A’ida, his...
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John Berger, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-73714-8
Masterful essays by British critic Berger on art and other topics, linking the moral to the aesthetic and the personal to the political. Photos. (Nov.)
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John Berger, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-73715-5
Three volumes of somber, masterfully crafted stories trace the lives of peasants in the French Alps. (Nov.)
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John Berger, Author Vintage Books USA $16 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-73722-3
British art critic and novelist Berger offers a sharp collectionof essays on art and artists and a critical study of Picasso's career. (Dec.)
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John Berger, Author Vintage Books USA $16 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-75513-5
Berger's first novel, originally published in 1964, depicts a turbulent day in the life of a 63-year-old London man. (Feb.)
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John Berger, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-76777-0
British novelist and art critic Berger's novel is a bittersweet love story celebrating post-Cold War Europe. (Mar.)
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John Berger, Author Pantheon Books $22 (202p) ISBN 978-0-679-43981-3
Ritual and myth; technology and science; history, both natural and human--each plays a crucial supporting role in this novel about a Franco-Italian railwayman, a Czech engineer, their un-selfpitying HIV-positive daughter and the Italian street...
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John Berger, Author Pantheon Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43525-9
Taking on the themes of art, friendship and time's passage, Berger (To the Wedding) fashions brief shorts that subtly replicate the photograph's ability to preserve a transient moment. Berger's subjects include his familiar Parisian artists and...
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John Berger, Author Henry Holt & Company $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3771-5
Widespread use of renewable energy (e.g., wind power) is coming; the only question is how long it will take to get here. Berger (Restoring the Earth) argues persuasively that at present, the limiting factor is political rather than technological....
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John Berger, Author Pantheon Books $21 (238p) ISBN 978-0-679-42722-3
Reprinted in the wake of his success with the Into Their Labours trilogy, Berger's 1964 novel (written eight years before the Booker Prize-winning G , and being issued in the U.S. for the first time) describes a day in the life of a man bent on...
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John Berger, Author Pantheon Books $20 (200p) ISBN 978-0-375-40556-3
It's difficult to tell a serious story in the voice of a dog, but that's what art critic (About Looking; Ways of Seeing) and novelist (G.) Berger has accomplished. The canine King introduces readers to a variety of intriguing humans in the squatter's
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John Berger, Author, Fred Jordon, Editor Pantheon Books $21 (242p) ISBN 978-0-679-40632-7
While each of Berger's essays originates from a single image or idea, the resulting train of thought is held to no predictable itinerary. A trip to a Swiss zoo segues into a meditation on apes, with whom we share 99% of our DNA genetic code, and...
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John Berger, Author . Pantheon $32.50 (608p) ISBN 978-0-375-42156-3
At 75, British-born prolific art writer Berger (Ways of Seeing) is a longtime farm dweller in the French Alps, which may help give his prose its much-praised unadorned directness and earthiness. This weighty tome selects essays from previous volumes,
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John Berger, Author . Pantheon $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-42147-1
This volume collects more recent essays that first appeared in a variety of languages in publications in Zurich, Madrid, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Helsinki and London. Since very few readers, even Berger fanatics, will have the linguistic skills to have
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John Berger, Author Pantheon Books $18.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-394-54287-4
Collected here for the first time in book form are essays, poetry, travel sketches and reminiscences, most published previously in magazines, by British art critic and novelist Berger (Ways of Seeing and G), a Marxist who has long explored the...
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John Berger, Author . Pantheon $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-42336-9
Lisbon is to Mother as Geneva is to Borges? Berger's elegiac gathering of semi-autobiographical vignettes seems at first to propose an elegant, somewhat chilly game of linking European cities to their dead. But as the table of correspondences...
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Edited by Tom Overton. Verso (Random, dist.), $44.95 (544p) ISBN 978-1-78478-176-7
This thick anthology of John Berger’s previously published art writings, edited by Overton, the cataloger of his archive at the British Library, point to the many sides of the prolific English critic’s writing career. Here, woven together, are...
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