Events

Geoff Dyer on Dylan in the Madhouse (2005) Surprisingly, Bob Dylan first came to the attention of the British public through his role in a 1963 BBC TV play, The Madhouse on Castle Street. The tape was later wiped and has since become the holy grail of missing Dylan works. Joining the hunt, Arena uncovers […]

In the spirit of the intellectual curiosity of Berger, Sontag and Didion, Geoff Dyer helps us to see the world around us, and within us, afresh. Join the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment and ‘national treasure’ (Zadie Smith) for an illuminated history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. For information about this […]

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.