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    Talking to the Dead: Narrator and Audience in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

    By JESS ENGEBRETSON Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant is a story about digging up the past.  The novel imagines a 5th century land — what it would mean ...

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    Wicked Whitmans on TV

    By RACHEAL FEST AMC launched the soon-to-be acclaimed serial dramas Mad Men (2007–2015) and Breaking Bad (2008–2013) against a backdrop of global economic collapse. As small-screen heroes Donald ...

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    Debt and Utopia

    By RICHARD DIENST Debt and Utopia? There must be some mistake. Surely all of us associate debt with dystopia, with dysfunctional economies, dead-end societies, and blocked lives. The ...

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    A Tax on Shivering

    If one of the functions of writing is to make the reader see, and see again, here is a brief list of what John Berger made visible. Paintings, photographs, ...

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    John Berger, Enemy of Neoliberal Capitalism

    By JONATHAN CRARY I’m going to begin with an observation that I believe would have been of particular interest for the person whose work brings us together today. ...

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    Berger as Storyteller

    By ANNIE WYMAN What was storytelling for John Berger? In some ways, it was just exactly what you or I might guess it to be: plots, characters, ordered ...

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    On John Berger’s Radical Art Criticism

    By RATIK ASOKAN Robert Lowell once expressed his desire to be: Like Mallarmé who had the good fortune to find a style that made writing impossible It’s a ...

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    Ways of Seeing Everything

    By JANE GAINES “Every image,” John Berger wrote, “embodies a way of seeing.”[1] Because of this embodiment the historian who comes later can study the way in which ...

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     John Berger as a Theorist for Politics

      By BARNABY RAINE On the little island where I was born, where we lack the cultural wealth of cable news – of CNN and Fox – our ...

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    Podemos and the Demons of the Spanish Left

    By JOHN McCLURE The Spanish Civil War haunts the Spanish left. It is a source of pride: a legend of heroic popular resistance to the massing forces of ...

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