Written during lockdown, this is a book by a writer on top of his game. The ostensible subject is endings, last things, work produced in ‘late style’… But, this being Geoff Dyer, it’s about the contents of his brain: lifelong obsessive preoccupations with certain writers, musicians, filmmakers, painters. There is also an essay on Roger Federer. Idiosyncratic, funny, highly ‘relatable’…
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
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Having escaped the massacre at Katyn, Czapski was interned and lived to write these essays on some of those who were murdered, as well as pieces on Blok, Soutine, and others. He was the mode... read more
Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History
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Midlife: Humanity’s Secret Weapon
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While MG's early short stories have recently found acclaim as modern classics, she is less well known as a brilliantly perspicacious critic and essayist. This new selection of her non-fictio... read more
Oppositions: Selected Essays
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After publishing 24 volumes on his father's work over 40 years, the great Christopher Tolkien died in Jan 2022, aged 95.