Events

Photographs provide a mirror to society, framing how we see things and revealing to us the myths that have shaped our histories. In this new talk with author Geoff Dyer we will look at how to read a photograph and the stories it can tell us about our past, present and ourselves. This event marks […]

English PEN and The London Library celebrate the energetic, fearless and fierce Rebecca West. 'Hard as nails… a cross between a charwoman and a gipsy, but as tenacious as a terrier, with flashing eyes… immense vitality… suspicion of intellectuals, and great intelligence…’ So said Virginia Woolf of Rebecca West, prolific author, journalist, literary critic, travel […]

Geoff Dyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and See/Saw, a tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair, gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment, and heir to Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, Susan Sontag’s On Photography, and John Berger’s […]

Geoff Dyer will be discussing his new book The Last Days of Roger Federer, a beguiling meditation, in which he sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians and tennis stars. This event will be live streaming. For more information click HERE.

Few writers make us laugh–and think–as much as “effortlessly erudite” (The Boston Globe) polymath and self-described “malcontent” Geoff Dyer, whose dizzying scope of knowledge and passion ranges from jazz to photography to cinema to yoga to visual art…we could go on. His new book, The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings, examines the […]

Join Geoff Dyer for a reading and conversation to celebrate the release of his new book The Last Days of Roger Federer . For more information click HERE.

Ranging from Friedrich Nietzsche and the Doors to the nineteenth-century Alps and back, Dyer’s book on last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty—and on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded […]

Book Launch: Geoff Dyer Presents The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings, in conversation with Jeremy Denk When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this […]

Geoff Dyer presents The Last Days of Roger Federer In conversation with Sam Lipsyte When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? Acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage […]

Celebrated writer Geoff Dyer returns with The Last Days of Roger Federer, an extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York). For more information click HERE.

In his latest book, Geoff Dyer turns his well-honed wit and sharp-edged wisdom to the consideration of endings. Taking a closer look at endings of significant events in life, and even life itself, Dyer in conversation with Sameer Pandya, assistant professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, […]

Writer Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with middle age against the last days and achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who have mattered to him throughout his life. He examines Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan’s reinventions of old songs, JW Turner’s paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane’s cosmic melodies, Jean Rhys’ […]