Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson is a senior lecturer in creative non-fiction at the University of East Anglia and the biographer of Primo Levi.

In Italy, everything is a family affair

The story of a troubled family reflects the political and social tensions of modern Italy

By Ian Thomson

By Ian Thomson

By Ian Thomson

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The singer and star of The Harder They Come has died aged 81

By Ian Thomson

Olivia Laing’s new tale of gay love imagines the murder of the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini

By Ian Thomson

Slave risings across the Caribbean, argues Sudhir Hazareesingh’s new book, drew less on Enlightenment ideas than African spirit lore

By Ian Thomson

Now 90, the Estonian composer has spent a lifetime crafting music of profound beauty.

By Ian Thomson

The history of assassinations, as Simon Ball points out in his book Death to Order, is one of myth-making,…

By Ian Thomson

Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy thriller.

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