British essayist and genre-blurring nonfiction writer whose career-spanning collections model the wandering, idiosyncratic essay.
Geoff Dyer values this selection because it reveals the enduring freshness of the writer's work through a chronologically arranged lens.
“For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, ‘the one bright book of life’”
Geoff Dyer views this as a vital intellectual heir to his own project of visual scrutiny.
Geoff Dyer considers this work an essential predecessor that informs the lineage of his own critical writing.
Geoff Dyer values this text as a foundational intellectual ancestor for his own approach to examining photography.
Geoff Dyer values this film as a lifelong obsession, celebrating it as the peak of 1960s war cinema despite its inherent absurdity.
“a thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood”