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Geoff A. Dyer
From former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief Geoff Dyer, a balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition between China and America.
Global politics is shifting rapidly. After decades of…
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Raymond Williams
The celebrated literary critic Raymond Williams, in his own words
Lynn Saville,Geoff Dyer
Dark City is a natural sequel to Lynn Saville’s colour photographs in Night/Shift (Monacelli, 2009). Her work in that book made her, in the words of Arthur C. Danto, the…
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D.H. Lawrence
You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for…
Jean Baudrillard
New edition of this classic study of the US, with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer.
John Berger
Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays takes a look at his career…
Alex Webb,Geoff Dyer
Gathering some of Alex Webbs most iconic images, many of which were taken in the far corners of the earth, this title brings a fresh perspective to his extensive catalogue…
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Never-before-published works by Helen Levitt, who helped to define the aesthetic of 20th-century documentary photography with her sensitive depiction of playful drama on the streets of New York.
The Suffering of Light is the first comprehensive monograph charting the career of acclaimed American photographer Alex Webb. Gathering some of his most iconic images, many of which were taken…
Geoff Dyer
From a writer whose books succeed in either subverting or creating genres comes a unique look at an inaccessible world
F Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. But as money becomes…
The extravagant pleasures of the wealthiest one percent of the earth’s population represent an extreme contrast to those of the remaining ninety-nine. Describing the gaping disparities in images is a…
D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence’s first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about…
The city Fred Herzog documented over more than half a century has vanished-an early kind of urban flaneur, Herzog wandered the streets of Vancouver, creating an archive that encapsulates the…
The powerful depiction of the sexual liaison of Constance Chatterley with the gamekeeper Mellors, while her invalid husband quietly seethes, brilliantly captures the perennial struggle between the classes and the…
D H Lawrence
She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast interlaced intricacy…
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Carl De Keyzer
A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields…
John Berger (School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University in the Schulich USA)
Contains essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W Eugene Smith - and the…
Text by Sandra Ruffin, Erik Steffensen, Geoff Dyer. Interview by Mette Markus.
Looming large in the cultural imagination as a wild territory to be conquered and the ultimate perimeter of human power, the seemingly untouched landscape of the Arctic has been an…
Text by Geoff Dyer, Briony Fer, Douglas Fogle, Russell Ferguson, Elena Filipovic, Bruce Hainley, Eungie Joo, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Annie Ochmanek, Jenelle Porter, Joan Rothfuss, Hanneke Skerath, Lynne Tillman, Mika Yoshitake.
John Cheever
John Cheever’s journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved…
