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Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin is a writer, journalist, and critic who chaired the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, and was the literary editor and a senior writer for The Independent. He now writes for the Financial Times, The Economist, and The Spectator. He is also the author of The 100 Best Novels in Translation (2018). (November 2020)

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Turner, Critic of the Anthropocene

A new show at Tate Britain foregrounds the painter’s tragic, if beguilingly beautiful vision of a world marred by cruel industrial might.

November 11, 2020

Van Gogh’s London Pilgrimage

As an ardent young preacher and social reformer in London in the 1870s, Vincent van Gogh had by then made no more art than a few crude sketches. Yet, from his teenage years, he had painted in words, with all the rhapsodic power of a voracious reader steeped in the fiction and poetry of three languages: Dutch, English, and French.

April 13, 2019

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