Asylum (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
It was the 90th anniversary of Armistice recently which led me to revisit Geoff Dyer’s The Missing of the Somme. But he was already on my mind as I had discovered that he will soon publish his first novel in a decade. His novels are perhaps the least of him, or their punning [...]
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
This completes a hat trick of books I’ve read inspired by topical events. After Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope and Geoff Dyer’s The Missing of the Somme , I was reminded recently that today is World Aids Day, which seemed a good opportunity to complete my reading of Adam Mars-Jones’s fiction. A dozen or more years ago, when I was enthused by his debut novel The Waters of Thirst...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Man in the News: Huang GuangyuBy Geoff Dyer and Jamil AnderliniPublished: November 28 2008 19:57 | Last updated: November 28 2008 19:57To get rich is glorious, Deng Xiaoping once told China. But maybe not too rich.You have viewed your allowance of free articles. If you wish to view more, click the button below.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
China has been keen to play down the significance of the G20 summit, writes Geoff Dyer in Beijing . Officials said they think the meeting will be more about...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... biographers, a real writer, and at his best he sounds like a combination of that wily bohemian Geoff Dyer and that wittily matter-of-factual cyborg .Even the cameos in Mr. French’s biography are crazily vivid. Here is his hole-in-one description of the editor Francis Wyndham: “Popular, gentle, solitary and eccentric, Wyndham lived with his mother, wore heavy glasses and high-waisted...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008FT: China Life Plots Overseas Insurance BuysBy Geoff Dyer in Beijing and Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
The growth machine that has got China this far needs to be re-tooled if it is to keep up its remarkable record, writes Geoff Dyer
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
Critic Geoff Dyer looks around three exhibitions dedicated to war reportage at the Barbican art gallery in London
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
FT: How The Financial Crisis Is Changing ChinaBy Geoff Dyer
The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... book was widely and extravagantly praised on its release, and every bit of it was deserved. Here's Geoff Dyer writing for The New York Times Book Review: From Stravinsky to Sibelius to Schoenberg (who “learned instrumental forms by subscribing to an encyclopedia, and waited for the S volume to arrive before composing a sonata”), the emerging heavyweights of the new music are sketched...
