Geoff Dyer

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

2 months ago | harpers.org | Geoff Dyer

I went home for Christmas in 2009. My mum had been feeling unwell for a while and had taken to her bed on Christmas Eve. I was sitting downstairs in the living room, reading. My dad called down and asked if I could come upstairs. She had collapsed in the bathroom. I phoned for an ambulance and, when it arrived, spoke calmly to the paramedics—a man and a woman.

Mar 9, 2025 | theguardian.com | Geoff Dyer

It can take a surprisingly long time to become conscious of something that has been a feature of one’s life for as long as one can remember. I was 66 before I realised that I had always liked sitting in a corner. This revelation occurred in a restaurant while I was waiting for a friend.