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John Berger’s Life Between Art and Politics | The Nation

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Caught between town and country, love and criticism, the English writer’s work tracks the political evolution of his generation.

February 3, 2020 Illustration by Joe Ciardiello. This article appears in the February 17, 2020 issue . So vegetables are politics now!” The line is pronounced by a character in Alain Tanner’s 1976 film Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 , a film that bids farewell to the political hopes of 1968 but somehow manages to be upbeat. John Berger, the English art critic, novelist, and universal man of letters who cowrote the film with Tanner, also managed to sustain an almost magical political buoyancy in the grim and uncertain years that followed the ’60s—and, like the character in Tanner’s film,

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