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Geoff Dyer

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

May 2024

  • 1980s airbrush-style illustration of a man catching a drink can against a California landscape in silhouette

    ‘Every Dylan song could be improved’: is perfection possible, or even desirable?

    Much art, from Bob Dylan to Robert Frank, derives its greatness from its flaws. But sporting perfection is a whole different ball game

August 2023

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    ‘Can I bring my switch?’: A family holiday throws up existential questions

    When Booker-longlisted author Paul Murray took his 10-year old son to New York, he wasn’t expecting the Nintendo store to be the greatest attraction• Geoff Dyer, Lissa Evans, Joe Dunthorne and more on their favourite holidays in fiction

September 2022

  • Roger Federer makes a backhand return to Tennys Sandgren during the 2020 Australian Open

    Roger Federer was graceful in play and gracious in defeat

    Geoff Dyer
    At once the best tennis player of all time and beatable, he was the one everyone wanted to see on court

July 2022

  • Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare.

    Full speed ahead: the enduring appeal of the road movie

  • Illustration by Neil Webb.

    Summer reading: the 30 best holiday reads – chosen by authors and critics

June 2022

  • Roger Federer plays his 1,500th match.

    Book of the day
    The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer review – the art of bowing out

    From Roger Federer to Bob Dylan, George Best to Jean Rhys, Geoff Dyer roams widely in this finely crafted study of endings

May 2022

  • Geoff Dyer

    Books interview
    Geoff Dyer: ‘I’m convinced Roger Federer and I could become great friends’

    The author on pranking JM Coetzee, his huge debt to Labour, and his new book about the twilight of careers for artists, writers and sportsmen

May 2021

  • Andrew Anthony plays tennis with Geoff Dyer, Queens Park, London

    This much I know
    Geoff Dyer: ‘I am what you might describe as chippy’

    The writer, 62, tells James McMahon about his working-class Cheltenham roots, college career and dole-queue days in a Brixton squat where he first began to read

April 2021

  • Before Henri-Cartier Bresson, writes Geoff Dyer, no one noticed ‘the fleeting geometries’ of street life

    Book of the day
    See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer review – how to really read a picture

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    Books that made me
    Geoff Dyer: ‘Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is like the gift of reading itself’

March 2021

  • Vivian Gornick

    Books that made me
    Vivian Gornick: 'I couldn’t finish Michelle Obama’s Becoming'

    The journalist and memoirist on learning from Natalia Ginzburg, the genius of Geoff Dyer’s comedy, and why James Salter is overrated

January 2020

  • Hiking on Amorgos, Greece.

    Further reading
    From Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlust

    Rob Doyle chooses his favourite books about the will to travel, including famous female flâneurs and Henry Miller’s holiday in Greece

December 2018

  • Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton in Where Eagles Dare.

    In brief: Eternal Boy; Childhood; ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ – reviews

    A biography of Kenneth Grahame explores a life of tragedy, Gerard Reve unsettles with a tale of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam and Geoff Dyer finds joy in Where Eagles Dare

October 2018

  • A man buried in the sand on the beach in Aden, Yemen. Aden, Yemen 2007 From the book: Bystander: A History of Street Photography by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz published by Laurence King A man buried in the sand on the beach in Aden, Yemen. Aden, Yemen 2007

    Contemporary photography special
    The best photography books and magazines, chosen by Geoff Dyer and Simon Bainbridge

  • 1968, WHERE EAGLES DARE<br>CLINT EASTWOOD &amp; RICHARD BURTON Character(s): Lt. Morris Schaffer &amp; Maj. Jonathan Smith, MC Film 'WHERE EAGLES DARE' (1968) Directed By BRIAN G.HUTTON 04 December 1968 SSH29470 Allstar/MGM (USA/UK 1968) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ by Geoff Dyer review – on Where Eagles Dare

September 2018

  • Geoff Dyer 2018

    On my radar
    On my radar: Geoff Dyer’s cultural highlights

    The author and critic on extreme climbing films, Australian experimentalists the Necks and a visionary of Italian photography

March 2018

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    Book of the day
    The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand by Geoff Dyer review – supremo of the 60s sidewalk

  • Train tracks, blurry

    Top 10s
    Top 10 parallel narratives

January 2017

  • Paul Theroux at home in Massachusetts in 2008.

    Travel book of the year shortlist covers ground from Alabama to the Arctic

    Six finalists include Paul Theroux’s Deep South, exploring the southern states of the US, and Geoff Dyer’s wide-ranging essay collection White Sand
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