Jonathan Derbyshire
@jderbyshire.ft.com
US opinion editor at the Financial Times. Moynihan Center Public Scholar, 2025-26, CCNY
I don’t think anyone captured the essence of Mailer-ness as Diane Arbus did (from the fabulous ‘Constellation’ show at the Oark Avenue Armory)
July 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I don’t think anyone captured the essence of Mailer-ness as Diane Arbus did (from the fabulous ‘Constellation’ show at the Oark Avenue Armory)
I was the NS's culture editor back then, not the deputy. But in all other particulars Nick Lezard's recollection of my small part in his becoming a columnist is spot on
July 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I was the NS's culture editor back then, not the deputy. But in all other particulars Nick Lezard's recollection of my small part in his becoming a columnist is spot on
Louis Moholo-Moholo, 1940-2025. One of the giants of the South African jazz diaspora in the UK. RIP.
June 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Louis Moholo-Moholo, 1940-2025. One of the giants of the South African jazz diaspora in the UK. RIP.
A privilege to be sent on my way to New York with a Banx
February 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A privilege to be sent on my way to New York with a Banx
Now on a Jarrett jag
January 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Now on a Jarrett jag
Recorded 50 years ago today
January 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Recorded 50 years ago today
Looking forward to reading this
January 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Looking forward to reading this
Tony Book, RIP. My dad took to me to Upton Park to watch City play out a dour 0-0 draw with West Ham when I was about eight. We were standing in the West Stand paddock near the dugouts. Skip noticed I was struggling to see and let me sit on the bench with him. Unforgettable.
January 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Tony Book, RIP. My dad took to me to Upton Park to watch City play out a dour 0-0 draw with West Ham when I was about eight. We were standing in the West Stand paddock near the dugouts. Skip noticed I was struggling to see and let me sit on the bench with him. Unforgettable.
Or the consumptive, bed-bound author of a multi-volume roman fleuve
January 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Or the consumptive, bed-bound author of a multi-volume roman fleuve
Homage to Robert Merle on the front page of L'Humanité this morning
January 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Homage to Robert Merle on the front page of L'Humanité this morning
I went to that show in 2022. Wonderful!
January 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I went to that show in 2022. Wonderful!
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social reveals on his Substack this morning that Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan is “probably” his favourite film. I watched it for the first time in years recently. While it might not be my *favourite* film, it’s certainly a minor masterpiece of acting and screenwriting
January 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social reveals on his Substack this morning that Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan is “probably” his favourite film. I watched it for the first time in years recently. While it might not be my *favourite* film, it’s certainly a minor masterpiece of acting and screenwriting
Released on this day in 1979
December 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Released on this day in 1979
Strava’s new AI doesn’t seem especially impressed by my “recent cycling activities”
December 14, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Strava’s new AI doesn’t seem especially impressed by my “recent cycling activities”
That didn't take long
December 13, 2024 at 12:04 PM
That didn't take long
Georgia's prime minister giving Javier Milei a tonsorial run for his money
December 5, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Georgia's prime minister giving Javier Milei a tonsorial run for his money
A young Michel Barnier with Georges Pompidou. They are the only French prime ministers to have lost a confidence vote in the National Assembly, 62 years apart
December 5, 2024 at 8:54 AM
A young Michel Barnier with Georges Pompidou. They are the only French prime ministers to have lost a confidence vote in the National Assembly, 62 years apart
'We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
December 3, 2024 at 3:25 PM
'We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Handy graphic from @liberation.fr listing French PMs under the Ve Republic by length of tenure
December 3, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Handy graphic from @liberation.fr listing French PMs under the Ve Republic by length of tenure
1966 was structuralism’s annus mirabilis. The sales figures that year for, inter alia, Lacan’s Écrits and Foucault’s Les Mots et Les choses are remarkable (from volume I of François Dosse’s Histoire du structuralism)
December 3, 2024 at 8:44 AM
1966 was structuralism’s annus mirabilis. The sales figures that year for, inter alia, Lacan’s Écrits and Foucault’s Les Mots et Les choses are remarkable (from volume I of François Dosse’s Histoire du structuralism)
Nicely put in @lemonde.fr: Michel Barnier faces the prospect of being the “most ephemeral” prime minister in the history of the Fifth Republic
December 3, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Nicely put in @lemonde.fr: Michel Barnier faces the prospect of being the “most ephemeral” prime minister in the history of the Fifth Republic