Who killed Pasolini?
Olivia Laing’s new tale of gay love imagines the murder of the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Reviewing politics
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Ian Thomson is a journalist and author whose books include Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life.
Olivia Laing’s new tale of gay love imagines the murder of the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
By Ian Thomson
Matthew Beaumont’s The Walker asks how the nocturnal metropolis differs from the city in daylight.
By Ian Thomson
This international Booker Prize-shortlisted "masterwork" is structurally adventurous, and rife with narco-style violence and expletive-heavy prose.
By Ian Thomson
The neglected postwar fiction of Alexander Baron.
By Ian Thomson
The story behind Our Man in Havana reveals a life tied up with espionage and betrayal.
By Ian Thomson
Vainglorious sexual antics, boastfulness and scorn for democracy: has the blackshirt spirit returned in Donald Trump?
By Ian Thomson
The 81-year-old politician is symptomatic of the “anti-elite” animus now affecting much of the western world.
By Ian Thomson
Dave Eggers’ latest book explores how American-Yemeni businessman Mokhtar Alkhanshali went from working in a Honda factory to creating…
By Ian Thomson
Dennis Glover, an Australian political speechwriter, has written a fictional homage to the moral crusader.
By Ian Thomson