Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

Hold Everything Dear is John Berger’s vital response to today’s global economic and military tyranny. From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the countless personal choices, encounters, illuminations, sacrifices, new desires, griefs and memories that occur in the course of political resistance to empire and colonialism.

These sensuous reflections reveal the political at the core of human existence, from the relentlessness of daily life in the West Bank, to the potential force of desire, to the unflinching gaze of Pasolini’s political film. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on what political resistance means today, by one of the most compelling radical voices of our age.

“A powerful polemicist and precise poet.” — The Times

“Any book by John Berger is an event ... admirers will recognize the characteristic blend of sympathy and lucidity, directness of address, human warmth, and cosmopolitan example.” — Times Literary Supplement

“Berger is never less than eloquent ... a heartfelt advocate of those without hope.” — Metro

“I admire and love John Berger’s books. He writes about what is important, not just interesting. In contemporary English letters, he seems to me peerless; 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.” — Susan Sontag

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, 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 and, most recently, Here Is Where We Meet.