Hold Everything Dear

A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice

John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things till we see what we thought wasn't there. But above all he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master.

One of the most influential intellectuals of our time.

Berger's is a humane and uniquely confiding voice.

I admire and love John Berger's books ... Not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a wonderful artist and thinker.

Berger is a writer one demands to know more about ... an intriguing and powerful mind and talent.

Powerful polemicist and precise poet.

Berger is never less than eloquent... a heartfelt advocate of those without hope.

Any book by John Berger is an event . admirers will recognise the characteristic blend of sympathy and lucidity, directness of address, human warmth, and cosmopolitan example.

Rereading Hold Everything Dear , it is striking to realize-to an utterly tragic degree-how there is nothing new in the devastation of the past two years, nor in the crass power dynamics of the second Trump administration. What is shocking, however, is to measure how impoverished public discourse has become...Undoubtedly the most urgent and relevant of Berger's writings on art, politics, and conflict.

Hold Everything Dear has come off the bench in a moment when Berger's reflections on war, poverty, art, and language have only grown more resonant.

Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing , the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours , Here Is Where We Meet , the Booker Prize-winning novel G , Hold Everything Dear , the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X , and A Seventh Man .