Geoff Dyer

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Geoff Dyer

In a new memoir, Geoff Dyer reflects how seemingly trivial moments and objects of childhood end up playing an outsize role in our lives.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Geoff Dyer

My earliest reading memory Beatrix Potter when I was having my tonsils out. No point saying how much I loved her books because everyone does, but Roberto Calasso makes a brilliant point in The Celestial Hunter by pairing “two great moments in the Victorian age” when Darwin “linked human beings to primates” and Potter “distributed human behaviour among a certain number of small domestic and rural animals”. My favourite book growing up The Guns of Navarone.

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Geoff Dyer

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning15, Nationwide You have to time your arrival at cinemas carefully if you want to avoid the high-volume, rapid-fire edits of trailers for upcoming mind-rot. That’s conceptually impossible with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. The first half an hour is a debrief in the form of an extended trailer of highlights from previous missions.

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Geoff Dyer

You have to time your arrival at cinemas carefully if you want to avoid the high-volume, rapid-fire edits of trailers for upcoming mind-rot. That’s conceptually impossible with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. The first half an hour is a debrief in the form of an extended trailer of highlights from previous missions. At one point during this hyper-extended prelude Tom Cruise and a pal sneak into a disused London tunnel, as if to an underground club.

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Geoff Dyer

In extracts from his new memoir, writer Geoff Dyer describes what it was like growing up… as Geoff Dyer Family photographs courtesy of Geoff DyerWhen I say, truthfully, that I have no memory of the picture being taken I’m conscious that this is meaningless because, of course, the photograph is memory. I have no idea who took the picture.