Geoff Dyer

London

Editor at Financial Times

FT Big Read editor, ex foreign correspondent in China, Brazil and the US. Author of 'Contest of the Century'.

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Articles

The Secret of Who She Was

3 weeks 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.
Best seat in the house: writer Geoff Dyer on why sitting in a corner is so satisfying

1 month ago | 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.
Living here, we're always on edge of catastrophe

Jan 10, 2025 | thetimes.com | Geoff Dyer
Author Geoff Dyer on Bob Dylan: ‘The songs pour off his records like they’re written in my soul from him to me’

Oct 5, 2024 | theguardian.com | Geoff Dyer

It’s Dylan season again! The European leg of his tour kicked off in Prague on Friday and arrives in the UK on 1 November, climaxing with three nights at the Albert Hall. The latest official Bootleg release, meanwhile, comprises 27 CDs thoroughly documenting – to put it mildly – his raucous 1974 North American tour with the Band. A selection of highlights, recorded near the end of that tour, was released as an instant souvenir on Before the Flood.
Tom Wolfe’s acid aesthetic

Sep 18, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Geoff Dyer

W hat do we expect from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test now, more than half a century after it was first published?
The Saturday Read: Bonfire of the vanities

Aug 31, 2024 | saturdayread.substack.com | Finn McRedmond |Geoff Dyer

Good morning. Welcome to the Saturday Read, the New Statesman’s guide to politics, culture, books, and ideas. This is Finn, together with, Nicholas, Pippa and George. The last day of August is a good time to reflect on the defining events of this rather unusual summer. The first half was almost entirely dominated by the general election and the end of 14 years of Tory rule.
Topsprinter Femke Bol is hét Nederlandse gezicht op de Olympische Spelen in Parijs

Jul 23, 2024 | groene.nl | Geoff Dyer

Verder lezen? Probeer De Groene op proef en ontvang het dubbeldikke zomernummerDe Groene Amsterdammer is hét weekblad voor onafhankelijke, kritische en betrokken denkers. Met wekelijks diepgravende en gedurfde onderzoeksjournalistiek, essays en analyses en het beste over boeken, kunst en cultuur. Al sinds 1877 maken lezers zoals u De Groene mogelijk. Lees en steun De Groene nu 10 weken op proef met korting voor slechts €15. Het proefabonnement stopt na afloop automatisch.
The shot seen round the world

Jul 17, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Geoff Dyer

To frame the question somewhat awkwardly: when did the pictures of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump start to be taken? How far back do we have to reach to take the full measure of Joe Biden’s gaffes at the Nato summit? In 1967 John Berger published an essay in which he pointed out the striking similarities between a photo of the recently displayed corpse of Che Guevara and Rembrandt’s 1632 painting, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp.
We make it hard for public figures to have a graceful exit

Jul 15, 2024 | thetimes.com | Geoff Dyer |Susie Goldsbrough

It was a big weekend for ageing men who don’t know when to quit. Perhaps that’s harsh. Putting American politics delicately aside (ah, if only), the silvering gents I’m talking about are extraordinary athletes whose longevity is as much a testament to their gifts and grit as the benefits of modern sports nutrition and regular ice baths.
Roger Federer’s Twelve Final Days - from tennis god to screen smash

Jun 13, 2024 | thetimes.com | Geoff Dyer

Asif Kapadia’s new documentary, Federer: Twelve Final Days, is not, as the title might have implied, about his last 12 Grand Slam finals (covering a span of ten years from 2009) or even his final 12 days on the tour proper, which anticlimaxed with a straight-sets defeat to Hubert Hurkacz in the Wimbledon quarter-finals of 2021.