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Here’s a selection of reviews of Geoff’s various books. We’ll be updating this as and when new reviews and interviews are published but please also look under individual books.

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Zona

Published by Canongate, UK; Pantheon, US

The New York Observer
LA Times
The Telegraph
New York Times
The Financial Times
The Observer
The Guardian
The Independent on Sunday
The Independent
The Scotsman
The Irish Times
The Sydney Morning Herald
Frieze
Kirkus
The Melbourne Review
The Millions
The List
The White Review
The New Zealand Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
Globe and Mail
NPR Books
Slate.com
The Quarterly Conversation
The Daily Beast

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Selected Essays and Reviews, 1989-2010, Graywolf Press, US

LA Times

New York Times

New York Observer

The Millions

Working the Room

Guardian

Observer

Telegraph

Spectator

Independent

Financial Times

Herald Scotland

National Post

Brisbane Times

Metro

The Australian

New Zealand Herald

The Blurb

Jeff In Venice, Death in Varanasi

List of all reviews and availability to buy

The Ongoing Moment

The Observer

The Independent

The New York Times

The Independent on Sunday

The Spectator

Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It

Some reviews here

But Beautiful

Some reviews here

Out of Sheer Rage

Some reviews here

Paris Trance

Some reviews here

Anglo-English Attitudes

Some reviews here

The Missing of the Somme

Independent




INTERVIEWS

Bryan Appleyard in The Sunday Times
Florence Welch in The Telegraph
Guernica
Bookforum
GQ
The Daily Beast
The Believer
Paris Review
The Rumpus
Prospect
Scotsman
The Asylum

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Books

Zona

Zona

‘Few books about film feel like watching a film, but this one does. We sit with Dyer as he writes about Stalker, he captures its mystery and burnish, he prises it open and gets its glum majesty. As a result of this book, I know the film better, and care about Tarkovsky even more.’ Mark Cousins, author of THE STORY OF FILM

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Forewords & Afterwords

Jacob Holdt’s America: Faith, Hope and Love

Jacob Holdt’s America: Faith, Hope and Love

Geoff Dyer introduces this survey of Jacob Holdt’s photographs of America in the 1970s.

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As Editor

What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney

What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney

When William Gedney died in 1989 at the age of 56 he was little known except to a few colleagues and curators. This book, co-edited by Geoff Dyer, reveals Gedney’s remarkable photographs as well as writings by him.

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