John Berger

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1. John Berger

   Author of G., About Looking, Once in Europa

2. Roland Barthes

   Author of Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, Image-Music-Text

3. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

4. Susan Sontag

   Author of On Photography, Under the Sign of Saturn, Styles of Radical Will

5. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

6. E. H. Gombrich

   Author of The Story of Art, Art and Illusion

7. W.G. Sebald

   Author of Austerlitz, The Rings of Saturn, On the Natural History of Destruction

8. J. M. Coetzee

   Author of Life & Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Age of Iron

9. John Banville

   Author of The Untouchable, Eclipse, Ghosts

10. Raymond Williams

    Author of Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Marxism and Literature, Culture and Society: 1780-1950

11. Robert Hughes, 1938-

    Author of The Shock of the New, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Goya

12. Michael Ondaatje

    Author of Anil’s Ghost, In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter

13. Italo Calvino

    Author of Invisible Cities, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Uses of Literature

14. Graham Swift

    Author of Last Orders, Waterland, The Light of Day

15. Marshall McLuhan

    Author of Understanding Media, The Medium is the Massage

16. V. S. Naipaul

    Author of The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel, In a Free State

17. Geoff Dyer

    Author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence, Paris Trance

18. Fredric Jameson

    Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic

19. Thomas Bernhard

    Author of Concrete, Gargoyles, The Voice Imitator

20. Julian Barnes

    Author of Flaubert's Parrot, Staring at the Sun, The Lemon Table