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John Berger, Death’s Secretary: A Conversation with Tom Overton

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John Berger, Death’s Secretary: A Conversation with Tom Overton
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John Berger in 2014. Photograph by Amarjit Chandan, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
The British writer and artist John Berger is best known for two things: his 1972 book and BBC series, Ways of Seeing, a canonical work of criticism that challenged traditional views of art history; and his acceptance speech that year, after winning the Booker McConnell Prize for his novel G., during which he announced that—in opposition to the prize’s founders, an organization with ties to the s

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