Sentences with phrase «geoff dyer»

Charlotte Higgins: This week Rachel Whiteread sculpts for Britain, put your name down for Olympic posters, Shechter and Gormley unite and Geoff Dyer fawns

Published by Ivorypress, it provides a complete visual record of the commission alongside a critical analysis of the work by the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer and expert contextual essays on cowardice, desertion and psychological trauma brought on by military service by the acclaimed historians Sir Hew Strachan and Dr Helen McCartney.

Some of the country's most brilliant writers, including Geoff Dyer, Philip Hoare and Olivia Laing have also sent in their thoughts.

Text by Minik Rosing, Geoff Dyer, Robert McGhee, Peter Davidson, et al..

With contributions from geologists, historians, archeaologists and glaciologists, as well as a new essay by Geoff Dyer about the photographs from the nineteenth - century expeditions that provided some of the first glimpses of the region and its inhabitants, this catalogue considers the place of the Arctic in the history and culture of the West at a moment when the region is taking on a new significance as a threatened, vanishing space.

Geoff Dyer explains the magic and madness that is Port Eliot's literary festival, while some of this year's star attractions, including Ralph Steadman, Louis de Bernières and Gavin Turk, tell Lucy Siegle what will be turning their pages.

Geoff Dyer and Antony Gormley, «Souls of stone (His bodies have an eternal flame)», The Guardian Saturday Review, London, England, 16 September 2006

Among the authors are academics from the fields of art and cultural science, curators, journalists, philosophers, writers, artists, critics, political scientists, patrons, and migration researchers who are debating art and (inter) nationality including Geoff Dyer, Jacques Mandelbaum, Santu Mofokeng, Uli Sigg, Mark Terkessidis, Ranjit Hoskote, Aveek Sen, François Jullien, Simon Njami, Jeff Kelley, and Gilles Kepel.

As contradictory as it might seem, Ben Steele's paintings bring to mind «The Ongoing Moment,» the title of Geoff Dyer's book on photography.

L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley When essayist Geoff Dyer, whose main goal always seems to be sating his own curiosity, debuted his New York Times book column last week, he did so with a perfectly paced takedown of art historian Michael Fried.

Tim Cahill, Geoff Dyer, Pico Iyer... there is plenty of good stuff being written about the world and traveling around in it; anyone who says otherwise, or that «travel writing has run its course» (what an utterly ridiculous statement) has self - imposed blinders on.

But this is Geoff Dyer we're talking about, so now let's add two things to the template.

You may not have heard of Geoff Dyer, but this novelist, critic and essayist has been called «one of our most original writers,» and indeed his writing is unique, with titles ranging from Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It and Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush.

With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 looming, the Guardian Books site has commissioned «9/11 stories» from six writers, including Geoff Dyer, Will Self and Laila Lalami, that address the question of «what fiction can tell us about 9/11.»

I would read Geoff Dyer on any subject — partly because his writing is always unfailingly beautiful, and partly because to read him on any subject is to read him on pretty much every subject.

In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art - porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality.

The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer (August).

Below is a list of the contributing authors with links to bios, interviews and photos: David Shields Bradford Morrow David Gates Kyoki Mori Robert Clark Sallie Tisdale Jonathan Safran Foer Diane Ackerman Melissa Pritchard Christopher Sorrentino Joyce Carol Oates Robin Hemley Peter Straub Kevin Baker Margo Jefferson Greg Bottoms Lynne Tillman Lance Olsen Mark Doty Brenda Hillman Geoff Dyer Annie Dillard If you're interested in exploring more books on...

READINGS Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer, Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham, Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Bratu Hansen, and Living Out Loud by Piper Laurie

Special Features New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray New interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room Interviews from 2002 with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky, set designer Rashit Safiullin, and composer Eduard Artemyev PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu

I picked this up because I'd read a very funny, wry essay Geoff Dyer had written about not having — and never wanting — children.

Not exact matches

MINE Director: Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro Written by: Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro Cast: Armie Hammer, Tom Cullen, Annabelle Wallis, Juliet Aubrey, Geoff Bell, Clint Dyer Opens: April 7, 2017