The eminent Oxford literary critic John Carey died on 11 December 2025, aged 91. In 1987, Faber & Faber published a ...

Eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer after losing in straight sets during the quarterfinals at Wimbledon last year. Geoff Dyer's new book uses Federer's decline as an occasion to consider art ...

Geoff Dyer's "thought-provoking and entertaining books" have always had a prominent autobiographical strain, said John Self in The Times. Whether grappling with D.H. Lawrence ("Out of Sheer Rage") or ...

Depending on how you look at it, Geoff Dyer is either the prototypical contemporary English-language writer or the outlier. Awards committees love him, and publishers do, too: his pace (nine books in ...

Geoff Dyer is English by birth, upbringing, and education, the author of some 20 previous books, fiction and nonfiction, and long resident in the United States. Works of travel (“The Missing of the ...

A certain sort of British memoir takes education as its queasy, pivotal center. The narrators of these books — among them Robert Graves’ WWI-scarred reminiscence, "Good-Bye to All That" (1929), and ...

""Angels getting pulled out of clouds repeatedly. The same angels, more than once."" A peculiar and compelling specificity marks The Dirty Halo of Everything, a set of seraphs by Geoffrey Dyer.

In "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It" (Pantheon, 272 pages, $22), Geoff Dyer offers not a fitness manual, but a travel bible for modern-day slackers. This collection of 11 essays takes ...

This instant classic%E2%80%94first published in 1994 and now available in the U.S.%E2%80%94by acclaimed British author Dyer (Otherwise Known as the Human Condition ...

In his essay “The Critic as Artist,” Oscar Wilde famously declared that “the highest criticism is really the record of one’s own soul.” More delightful than history and more concrete than philosophy, ...

“Wait, Roger Federer’s not dead, is he?” a woman asked me at a coffee shop recently. I was reading Geoff Dyer’s new book, “The Last Days of Roger Federer,” and she had spotted the title. No, no, I ...