Ian Thomson

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• 2024

  1939: Before Darkness Fell

  Thomson, I., 2024, Poetry Nation Review (PNR), 275, p. 16-23 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Indro Montanelli: Our Man in the Baltic

  Thomson, I., 1 Nov 2024, In: California Italian Studies. 13, 2, 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• 'Meetings with Remarkable Italians'

  Thomson, I., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Handbook of Italian Literature. Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2023

  'Before Darkness Fell': Ian Thomson Travels in the footsteps of Eric Ambler's Spy Novels

  Thomson, I., 1 Jun 2023, Slightly Foxed, Summer 2023, No 78, p. 63-69 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Dante and the Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson

  Translated title of the contribution: 但丁与《神曲》-伊恩·汤姆森: 但丁与《神曲》-伊恩·汤姆森Thomson, I., 10 Jan 2023, Head of Zeus (Landmark Series).

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2022

  A Yalie at Sea: Rediscovering a Lost Beckettian novel of the 1930s

  Thomson, I., 4 Mar 2022, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. ? 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

• Camp or Gulag? A wartime reckoning in Finland

  Thomson, I., 18 Mar 2022, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 17 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

• Celebrating Konstantin Paustovsky — hailed as ‘the Russian Proust’

  Thomson, I., 15 Jan 2022, Spectator 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Naples will never escape the shadow of Vesuvius

  Thomson, I., 9 Jul 2022, Spectator.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

  Open Access

• Reggae on Film: from the streets to the dancehall to the screen: A Season marking 60 years of Jamaican independence brings movies, music and personalities famous and forgotten to the BFI

  Thomson, I., 26 Jul 2022, Financial Times, p. 10 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• The Captain’s Apprentice — Ralph Vaughan Williams’ creative awakening: An account of a pivotal episode in the composer's life dispels myths about the man and his music

  Thomson, I., 18 Aug 2022, In: Financial Times. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• The invisible man: The Glass Pearls, by Emeric Pressburger, reviewed: A meek, self-effacing German refugee in 1960s London turns out to be a very different individual

  Thomson, I., 13 Aug 2022, Spectator 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

• 'The Writer and the Bricklayer': Remembering the Holocaust

  Thomson, I., 26 Jan 2022, The Tablet, p. 10-11 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Twenty-four-hour party person: The success of Tony Wilson, visionary founder of the Haçienda nightclub in Manchester

  Thomson, I., 10 Jun 2022, Times Literary Supplement.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

• Una conversazione a Palermo con Leonardo Sciascia

  Translated title of the contribution: Sicilian Writers and the Mafia: A conversation in Palermo with Leonardo SciasciaThomson, I., 2022, Soveria Mannelli, Sicily: Rubbettino Editore. 87 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2021

  Andes Adventure: Iain Sinclair sets off to Peru but finds connections to family, literature and Hackney

  Thomson, I., 6 Nov 2021, Financial Times, p. 9 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Blood on the Knife: Leonardo Sciascia's reflections on - and contribution to - cinema

  Thomson, I., 3 Dec 2021, In: Times Literary Supplement. p. 29 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Dante's Debt to Islam: Muslim Tradition and the Inferno

  Thomson, I., 22 Jul 2021, The Tablet, p. 14-15 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Dark days in the Balkans: life under Enver Hoxha and beyond

  Thomson, I., 4 Nov 2021, Spectator 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Darkness, desolation and disarray in Germany

  Thomson, I., 2 Sep 2021, Spectator 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Dostoevsky and the savage French fop: Kevin Birmingham's clear and gripping new study of the Russian novelist digs deep into the inspiration for Crime and Punishment

  Thomson, I., 21 Nov 2021, Observer, p. 43 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Ice queen of the stoned age: This gossipy but absorbing biography of Nico paints a flattering portrait of the enigmatic singer

  Thomson, I., 21 Jun 2021, Observer, p. 38 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'Infernal Censorship': My fight to stop the Chinese censors sanitising Dante

  Thomson, I., 13 Mar 2021, Spectator, 13 March 2021, p. 17 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• It takes a trained ear fully to appreciate Indian music

  Thomson, I., 3 Jun 2021, Spectator 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Lent reflection: Islands of memory

  Thomson, I., 18 Mar 2021, The Tablet, p. 6-7 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• March 1944: Tallinn is Burning

  Thomson, I., 2021, In: Looming. 3/2021, p. 363-374 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Music is the key to being human: From bone flutes to electronica, Mozart to Stormzy

  Thomson, I., 22 May 2021, Financial Times 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'My Nightmare Before Christmas': Water, water everywhere: a true strory

  Thomson, I., 18 Dec 2021, The Tablet, p. 22 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Night trippers: The Walker: On finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

  Thomson, I., 3 Sep 2021, The New Statesman, p. 49 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• The Icy Edge of Empires: This history of the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia brings to life a forgotten land

  Thomson, I., 31 Jul 2021, Financial Times 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Victorian Visionary: Claire Tomalin's biography charts the priapic and political preoccupations of the young H.G.Wells

  Thomson, I., 12 Dec 2021, Financial Times, p. 11 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• 2020

  A Separate World: Jaan Kross's The Czar's Madman

  Thomson, I., Sep 2020, Slightly Foxed, Autumn 2020, 67, p. 7-12 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'Force Majeure: Tangerine Dream'

  Thomson, I., 4 Sep 2020, Times Literary Supplement, p. 19 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Refugee blues: The life of Maret Haugas (1934–2006) and the kindness of Carel Weight (1908–1997)

  Thomson, I., 2020, In: British Art Journal. 21, 2, p. 3-15 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2019

  Martin Amis and Ian Thomson on the Legacy of Primo Levi

  Thomson, I. & Amis, M., 13 Dec 2019

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

• 'Poet of this vale of tears': Essay on Norfolk poet-martyr St Robert Southwell

  Thomson, I., 23 Feb 2019, The Tablet, p. 11 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life - updated centenary edition

  Thomson, I., Jul 2019, Vintage.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 普里莫·莱维传: Primo Levi: A Life by Ian Thomson

  Translated title of the contribution: Primo Levi by Ian ThomsonThomson, I., 2019, Shanghai Sanhui Culture and Press Ltd. 704 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2018

  After the boat came in: Empire Windrush

  Thomson, I., 31 May 2018, Observer, p. 14-17 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Alberto Moravia

  Thomson, I., 1 Nov 2018, Literary Landscapes: Charting the Real-Life Settings of the World’s Favourite Fiction. Modern books

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Dante's Divine Comedy: A Journey Without End

  Thomson, I., 9 Aug 2018, Head of Zeus. 288 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 'Debt and damnation': Dante's debt to Islam

  Thomson, I., Sep 2018, Standpoint, 104, p. 37-41 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• 'The gospel according to Pasolini': the making of 'The Gospel According to Matthew'

  Thomson, I., 22 Dec 2018, The Tablet, p. 10 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'Tragi-comic': Essay on Flann O'Brien

  Thomson, I., 18 Aug 2018, The Tablet, p. 20 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• 2017

  'A Caribbean mystery': investigation into murder of a Jesuit priest in Jamaica

  Thomson, I., 1 Jul 2017, The Tablet, p. 9 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'Baltic Overlords': Jaan Kross's trilogy of a small nation caught between the occupation of totalitarian powers

  Thomson, I., 11 Aug 2017, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 21 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'Cast out this demon': article on alcoholism

  Thomson, I., 7 Jan 2017, The Tablet, p. 14 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'Cold War Dante': How a medieval Christian poet inspired a Texan, neo-Dadaist maverick

  Thomson, I., 15 Sep 2017, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 5 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'Cool for Cats': On the Italian love affair with smoking

  Thomson, I., 6 Apr 2017, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 29 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Death in Breughelland: Ian Thomson considers Le Grande Macabre, the madcap, comico-grotesque opera by Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thomson, I., 22 Jan 2017, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. TLS website 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article