“Dyer is wonderful on the strangeness of remembering itself . . . Homework records the kinds of memories we all have―first sip of beer, first fight, first sexual encounter―but also the vividly remembered oddities . . . [Dyer] could not yet know that the career his education would make possible meant he would join a branch of British writers running from Thomas Hardy to Zadie Smith, a lineage of outsider autodidacts who revitalized the prim English novel. Dyer’s memoir deftly captures this transformation, one both unlikely and inevitable.”

“Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades . . . If Dyer has grown sentimental about the England of his upbringing, his nostalgia is a subtle critique of how optimism in big government has grown worse for wear―Homework bursts with working-class pride, a fond and mournful belief in the possibility of the British welfare state.”

“Dyer’s reminiscences brim with irony and black humor about an era that trumpeted progress, but was suffused with postimperial decline . . . The result is an arresting and evocatively detailed take on family and society.”

“A masterful, beautiful, reluctantly moving book―that is, moving despite its subject being naturally moving, courting no pathos, shrewd and frank―and Dyer’s best in some time. Indeed, one of his best, period . . . [The Last Days of Roger Federer], if it heralds a late style, promises [this]: a powerful and funny mind, ranging across the canons of both art and experience, cutting closer toward deep truths, telling us what things are like when time is shortening.”

“Dyer’s mix of sparkling prose, rich insight, and mordant wit suggests that a well-lived life is worth even the bitterest of endings. It makes for a smart, memorable take.”

“Geoff Dyer is an idiosyncratic master of both the image and the word.”

“Geoff Dyer’s Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is an hilariously funny, freewheeling, rule-breaking, wholly original, scene-by-scene sprint through the crazy action film “Where Eagles Dare.’”

“When I next want to recall instantly why Winogrand is essential, an exemplar of what photography can disclose about reality and our secret, public selves, Dyer’s will be the first book I reach for.”

“With philosophical incisiveness, Dyer extols the virtue of landscape to conjure in himself the tangible and the mirage, the real and the illusion, the possessed object and the desired object. There is an undeniable joy throughout Dyer’s writing, an affirmation that travel and the experience of place—not merely being someplace, but being present in it—is a gateway to the humanity of past, present, and future. A mesmerizing compendium that reflects on time, place, and just what, exactly, we are doing here.””