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A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer. The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance--and completely, unabashedly unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose, determined--sometimes in advance of the events described--the way we would thin...

One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).How and when do artists and athletes know that their careers are coming to an end? What if the end comes early in a writer's life? How to keep going even as the ability to do so diminishes? In this ingeniously structured investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late midd...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKIn this endlessly stimulating investigation into ?things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. He examines Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, Beethoven's final qua...

Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS'Seductively curious' Observer?A visual and intellectual journey' HeraldSee/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surpri...

Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily TelegraphMuch attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in?In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. W...

An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).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 beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, f...

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A lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human ConditionSee/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day-including artists such as Eugène Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb-the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate ...

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Nebbia, vecchi tubi, edifici abbandonati. Un uomo fissa i tre personaggi sullo schermo mentre attraversano un paesaggio indecifrabile a bordo di un carrello ferroviario, musica elettronica, sulle loro facce perplessità e inquietudine. Attraversano una zona anonima, innominata, innominabile: la Zona, il luogo dei desideri rimossi. Ma questo l'uomo che fissa i tre personaggi sullo schermo lo sa già, perché negli ultimi trent'anni ha guardato e r...

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A humorous scene-by-scene analysis of the film "Where Eagles Dare" marking the approaching fiftieth anniversary of the film's release.

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La pioggia di Londra è diversa da quella delle altre città. È una pioggia grigia, è una pioggia corrosiva. Preme incessante sull'asfalto fino a perforarlo. È agosto, ma piove ininterrottamente, e la pioggia di Londra annacqua i pomeriggi d'estate fino a farli marcire. Nei ghetti di Brixton l'odio segregazionista riversa per le strade il sangue degli scontri razziali. Sul piccolo schermo la società applaude la vittoria del capitalismo bianco ed...