Ian Thomson’s first article for the Financial Times appeared in 1986. The paper was founded in 1888 and has an average daily readership of 2.2 million worldwide. Here is a selection of Ian Thomson’s recent articles:
The Other Paris by Luc Sante
12 December 2015
A history of the Paris underbelly.
Borderlines by Michela Wrong
11 September 2015
A new novel set in Africa.
The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
22 May 2015
A journey through the work of a 17th-century polymath.
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
4 April 2015
30 Jan 2015
‘Slow Road to Brownsville’, by David Reynolds
Encounters with cowboys and conservatives on the road from Canada to Mexico.
October 31, 2014
On the shores of Lake Peipsi: where time stands still
Travel article.
June 20, 2014
Jacques Tati, one of French cinema’s great maverick innovators, features this month in a British Film Institute.
October 17, 2014
‘Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia’, by Sigrid Rausing
Review by Ian Thomson
January 18, 2013
“Why is dumbness to be prized?” asks John Ashbery; it’s a good question. Review of Ashbery poems by Ian Thomson
December 14, 2012
Article on Mussolini by Ian Thomson
December 14, 2012
Article on John Keats by Ian Thomson
August 24, 2012
Article on French poet Mallarme by Ian Thomson
June 8, 2012
A review of a book about Courland in the Baltic by Ian Thomson
May 23, 2012
Article on Primo Levi as a scientific writer by Ian Thomson
March 30, 2012
Review of Andrew Motion’s sequel to Treasure Island by Ian Thomson
March 16, 2012
The dangers and delights inherent in adultery are communicated with schoolboy prurience and vigour by Craig Raine in his new novel. Review by Ian Thomson
March 2, 2012
Tobias Jones’s new book illustrates wider social problems in Italy. Review by Ian Thomson
June 6, 2014
‘Animals’, by Emma Jane Unsworth
Animals, by Emma Jane Unsworth. Review by Ian Thomson
February 7, 2014
‘William S. Burroughs’, by Barry Miles
A riveting documentary of a most peculiar life lived in the American underbelly. Review by Ian Thomson
Report from the Interior, by Paul Auster
Auster’s punctilious descriptions of mid-century suburban America are both funny and oddly affecting. Review by Ian Thomson
November 8, 2013
The Pike, by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War, by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Review by Ian Thomson
November 1, 2013
Three Brothers, by Peter Ackroyd
Three Brothers, by Peter Ackroyd. Review by Ian Thomson