Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

Geoff Dyer

The Last Days of Roger Federer: And other endings by Geoff Dyer

by •
November 2022, no. 448
Geordie Williamson reviews 'The Last Days of Roger Federer: And other endings' by Geoff Dyer

As chance would have it, this review was written following the retirement, aged forty-one, of Roger Federer from top-tier competitive tennis. Federer’s decision might be regarded as tricky for Geoff Dyer, since his latest work of essayistic autofiction leans heavily on the notion that while Federer, one of the giants of the sport, is forever about to retire, he never actually does.

... (read more)

Another Great Day At Sea by Geoff Dyer

by •
May 2015, no. 371
Luke Horton reviews 'Another Great Day At Sea' by Geoff Dyer

Despite their disparate subject matter, the central concerns of Geoff Dyer’s books remain the same. Whether he is writing about photography, D.H. Lawrence, taking you scene-by-scene through Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, or, as in Another Great Day At Sea, spending two weeks aboard a US aircraft carrier, his abiding concerns – the self, the nature o ...