See/Saw: Looking at Photographs 2010-2020

This tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers Geoff Dyer’s lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade.

Published by Canongate in April 2021.

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

“Profoundly haunting and fearless… Dyer’s trademark wit and uniqueness surround you… His very best.” Pico Iyer, The New York Times Book Review

But Beautiful

“May be the best book ever written about jazz.” David Thomson, Los Angeles Times

The Ongoing Moment

“There is very little fine writing on photography. Geoff Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment adds superbly to that tiny canon: clever, provocative, witty and shrewdly on the nail.” William Boyd

Out of Sheer Rage

“The funniest book I have ever read.” Steve Martin on Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage

The Search

“If any British writer can try on the mantle of Calvino, Dyer can. He has a poet’s gift with metaphor as well as an ability to grasp ideas, hold them, pass them on.” New Statesman & Society

The Colour of Memory

“In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post.” The Times