Theory in the Air

Geoff Dyer is the author of twenty-one books which together, and often individually, elude classification. Eclectic in theme, his body of work ranges across genres and forms. It includes But Beautiful (1991), his narrative tribute to jazz; Out of Sheer Rage (1997), a comic monologue about trying to write a study of D. H. Lawrence; The Ongoing Moment (2005), a treatise on the history of photography; novels such as Paris Trance (1998) and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (2009); the unorthodox travelogues Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It (2003) and White Sands (2016); Zona (2012), an account of a viewing of Tarkovsky’s Stalker; and his rumination on lateness and late style, The Last Days of Roger Federer (2022).