Long may he continue: on John Berger at 90

A number of books have been published to celebrate John Bergers 90th birthday this month, but this review focuses on four: two compilationsPortraits and Landscapesa collaboration with John Christie, and a volume of new essays. Portraits is a vast and nourishing compendium of Bergers essays that begins with a new preface by the master in which the first line is unequivocal: I have always hated being called an art critic. He admits, however, that he operated as such for a decade (mostly for the Ne