Ian Thomson

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• 2024

  1939: Before Darkness Fell

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

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• Indro Montanelli: Our Man in the Baltic

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

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• 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.

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• 2022

  Celebrating Konstantin Paustovsky — hailed as ‘the Russian Proust’

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• Darkness, desolation and disarray in Germany

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• It takes a trained ear fully to appreciate Indian music

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

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• Lent reflection: Islands of memory

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

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• March 1944: Tallinn is Burning

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 'Force Majeure: Tangerine Dream'

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

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• 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.

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• 2019

  '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.

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• 2018

  After the boat came in: Empire Windrush

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 2017

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

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

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• '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.

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• 'Cast out this demon': article on alcoholism

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

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• '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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 'Down and out in Bombay and London': Family Life and the last days of the Raj

  Thomson, I., 19 Dec 2017, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 17-18 2 p.

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• 'Hitchcock in the confessional': Alfred Hitchcock as a Catholic

  Thomson, I., 19 Aug 2017, The Tablet, p. 12 1 p.

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• 'Homecoming': Transporting a father's remains across Europe. Memoir

  Thomson, I., 28 Jul 2017, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 14-15 2 p.

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• 'The empire strikes back': Commonwealth & Brexit

  Thomson, I., 11 Mar 2017, The Tablet, p. 10 1 p.

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• 2016

  'Death-camp anthropolgy': The ethical meditations of Primo Levi, underlining his status as one of the most important writers of out time

  Thomson, I., 17 Jul 2016, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 3-4 2 p.

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• Semites of the Caribbean: Literary Responses to the long tradition of Jewish culture in the West Indies

  Thomson, I., 5 Aug 2016, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 29 1 p.

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• 'The hop, skip and jump of the cities': Ernest Ranglin's last concert

  Thomson, I., 31 Jul 2016, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 19 1 p.

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• 'Waiting for Life': Natalia Ginzburg 100 years on

  Thomson, I., 15 Jul 2016, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 16-17 2 p.

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• 2015

  Carrying on cruising: by ship from Liverpool to New York. Essay

  Thomson, I., 1 Aug 2015, Financial Times, p. 5-6 2 p.

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• Concrete Poetry: Ian Thomson remembers J.G.Ballard

  Thomson, I., 10 Oct 2015, In: Spectator. p. 50 1 p.

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• 'I'm not afraid of dying': Interview with Roberto Saviano

  Thomson, I., 4 Jul 2015, Daily Telegraph.

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• 'In the beginning was boredom': Alberto Moravia, chronicler of bourgeois ennui

  Thomson, I., 25 Sep 2015, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, p. 14-15 2 p.

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• Marx men: Ian Thomson celebrates the anarchic genius of Groucho and his brothers

  Thomson, I., 10 Jan 2015, Spectator, p. 33-34 2 p.

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• The dreamer: The creative limbo that spawned Fellini's modernist masterpiece, 8 1/2

  Thomson, I., 11 Apr 2015, Spectator, p. 50-51 2 p.

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• The fairy King: Ian Thomson remembers the Italian novelist Italo Calvino

  Thomson, I., 12 Sep 2015, Daily Telegraph, p. 26-27 2 p.

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