'As an observer of humanity Tom Phillips's thoughts are second to none' Susannah Frankel reviews Menswear in The Independent 20th October 2012
'Tom Phillips: An Interview' Adam Smyth and Gill Partington, London Reveiw of Books online, October 4th 2012
'Double Act' review of A Humument 5th edition by Adam Smyth, London Review of Books, vol 34 No.19 October 11th 2012
'A Little White Opening Out of Thought' review of A Humument 5th edition by Chris McCabe, Poetry Review, volume 102:3 Autumn 2012
'A Humument' 5th edition reviewed by Keith Miller, TLS 28th Sept 2012
'Were there but world enough and time' interview with Andrew David King, The Kenyon Review (online) Sept 2012
'Every Day of My Life is Like a Page' Review of 5th edition A Humument, Literary Review July 2012 issue 400, James Kidd
'A Humument: Long Revision' David Jennings, The Spectator, 19th May 2012
'The Last Art Film' Films, Jake Auerbach
'Absent Things As If They Are Present' The Believer Magazine January 2012, Jeannie Vanasco
2011
'The Olympic Kilo Coin' The Guardian (23rd November 2011), Maev Kennedy
'Art lovers — reach for your iPads' Royal Academy Magazine (RA, Spring 2011 p.78), Ben Lakee
'Metaphorical rather than literal' The Biochemist (Biochemical Society, February 2011 p.39), Sheila Alink-Brunsdon
World in the Balance (W W Norton), Interview with Tom Phillips about West African Goldweights, by Robert P. Crease
2010
Éditer L’Art (Les Éditions de la transparence: essais d’esthétique, 2010 pp.8,96,97), Leszek Brogowski
Royal Academy, Royal Academy Illustrated (RA, Summer 2010 p.92)
'The Artist as Collector' Apollo Magazine (September 2010 p.48), Isabel Andrews
'A Humument for your iPad' Printmaking Today (Cello Press Ltd, Winter 2010 p.18), Anne Desmet
2009
'Countdown to the new Ashmolean' Oxford Times (October 2009 pp.22-23), Theresa Thompson
'The Pastel Royals' The Pastel Journal (June 2009 p.48), Ken Gofton
'My Favourite Portrait' Face to Face NPG Journal (National Portrait Gallery, Autumn 2009 p.3), Camilla Batmanghelidjh
'Cathedrals and the Visual Arts' Art and Christianity (Art and Christianity Enquiry Ttrust, Winter 2009 p.5), Graham Howes
'An Introduction to Less is More...' The Capilano Review (The Capilano Press Society, Winter 2009 pp.6-11, 25-28) Ariana Kelly and Bill Jeffries
2008
Royal Academy, Royal Academy Illustrated 2008 (RA Books, 2008 p.31)
'The Word Made Mosaic' Apollo Magazine (Press Holdings Ltd, January 2008) pp.36-41, Ruth Guilding
'Recording Artist' Museum Practice Magazine (Museum Associates, Spring 2008) pp.32-35, Javier Pes
Blood on Paper (V& A publications, June 2008)
'Eric S Maskin awarded nobel prize in economics' The Institute Letter (Institute for Advanced Study, Winter 2008)
'Martin L Leibowitz: Chairman of the Board of Trustees' The Institute Letter (Institute for Advanced Study, Winter 2008) p.7
2007
Royal Academy, Royal Academy Illustrated (RA Books, 2007 p.33)
'Biographies' Autobiobliophiles (Summer 2007 pp.5, 8), Michael Lee Hong Hwee
'Dante Alighieri' Dante Rediscovered (Wordsworth Trust, 2007 pp.82-83), David Bindman, Stephen Hebron, Michael O'Neill
'Celestial ping-pong ball' A Book of Wonder, ed Robert Violette and Jane Withers (Selfridges & Co, 2007 p 30), Bettina von Hase
'Director's Visitor: Tom Phillips' The Institute Letter (Institute for Advanced Study, Winter 2007 p.8)
2006
'Bold Vision' Oxford Times (24th February, 2006), Sylvia Vetta
'National Portrait Gallery: more transparent than the Tate', The Art Newspaper (January 2006)
'Letter from the Master' Christ's College Magazine (2006 p.7), Malcolm Bowie
'Introduction' New Directions in Altered Books (Lark Books, 2006 p.6), Gabe Cyr
Royal Academy, Royal Academy Illustrated 2006 (RA Books, 2006 pp.54, 179)
The Portrait Now 2006 (National Portrait Gallery, 2006 pp.11,127,149), Sandy Nairne, Sarah Howgate
'A Portrait Project: Tom Phillips Paints Sir Nicholas Goodison' Courtauld Institute of Art News (Courtauld Institute Autumn 2006 pp.4-5), Sir Nicholas Goodison
'Getting Into Difficulty' The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2006 p.146), Dennis O'Driscoll
2005
'Tom Phillips’s victory tour of the US' The Art Newspaper (June 2005), Adrian Dannatt
'Works from a Humument' Art in Review, New York Times (June 2005), Roberta Smith
'Altered books' Creating Artists' Books (A & C Black Publishers, 2005 p.59), Sarah Bodman
'Additions and Subtractions' No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Books, 2005 pp.128-30, 196, 252), Betty Bright
Royal Academy, Royal Academy Illustrated 2005 (RA Books, 2005 pp.113, 116)
The Hunting Art Prize 1981-2005 (Royal College of Art, February 2005 pp.41-42), Anna Blundell-Williams, William Parker
2004
'Portrait' The Art Programme (Channel 4, 16th January 2004), Bruno Wollheim
'Who’s that girl?' Evening Standard (26th February 2004), Valentine Low
'Academicians Preview: Out to lunch' RA Magazine (RA, Spring 2004), Sarah Greenberg
'Tom Phillips CBE RA (We Are The People)' London Independent Photography (Summer 2004 pp.54-7), Jeanine Billlington
Tom Phillips — New and Recent Work (Flowers East, November 2004), Bill Hurrell
'All Saints Vitalised by a Royal Academian' Church Building (Gabriel Communications Ltd, November-December 2004 pp.22-23), Norman Lawton
'Art', Badges (The British Museum p.93), Philip Attwood
'Postcard World: New book, exhibition and fair' Philatelic Exporter (Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd, 2004 p.40), Liz McKernan
2003
'Pavement Artist' Living South (September 2003 pp.12-13), Pendle Harte
'Space is the Place' Printmaking Today (Spring 2003 p.10), Judith Palmer
'John Maine and the British Museum’s 250th AnniveRepublic of South Africary Medal' The Medal (Spring 2003 pp.83, 88, 91), Philip Attwood
'Interview on the Robert Elms show' BBC Radio London: Robert Elms (BBC, 10th March 2003)
'Peeping Tom / Anteckningar till "A Humument"' OEI (2003/2004 pp.177-183, 184-186), Torbjörn Elensky / Tom Phillips
2002
'The Academic Archive: Volume 1' Wax Poetics (waxpoetics, 2002 pp.77, 85, 105, 194), Joe Allen
Royal Academy, Royal Academy Illustrated 2002 (RA Books, 2002) pp.50, 184
, 'De la petite à la grand histoire par les cartes postales' Spirale (March/April, 2002 pp.6-7), Anick Bergeron
2001
'Saturday Review' Radio 4 (BBC, 24th March 2001)
'Discussion of African Art at the British Museum', Nightwaves: Radio 3 (BBC, March 1st 2001)
'Wish you were there?', Hotline (Virgin Trains, Spring 2001 pp.20-21), Siân Phillips
'Tom Phillips: Treating and translating', Mosaic (September 2001 pp.123, 279), Mary Ann Caws
The Art of the Book: From Medieval Manuscript to Graphic Novel (V&A Publications, 2001 p.180), James Bettley
'Painting Peckham Pink', Living South (March 2001), Jonathan Gibbs
2000
'Today’s Choice', The Times (8th February 2000 p.44), Tony Patrick
'Television Review' The Independent Review (9th February 2000 p.16), Robert Hanks
'Today’s Choice' Daily Telegraph (18th January 2000), Edna Pottersman
'And this is us, revealing all' Evening Standard (2nd February 2000 p.37), Victor Lewis-Smith
'Having a great time.. with postcards' Barr’s Postcard News (24th January 2000 pp.2, 51), Lew Baer
'Portrait of Sir Patrick Nairne' St Catherine’s College Oxford, Newsletter (Spring 2000)
'Defining Features — Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000' (National Portrait Gallery, September 2000) p.162, Ludmilla Jordanova
'Beckett, Cricket, and Bowler Hats', Folio (Summer 2000 p.19)
'Literary Imprints' Printmaking Today (Autumn 2000 p.22-2), Jim Anderson RE
'Postcard World' The Philatelic Explorer (November 2000 p.37), Liz McKernan
'Shortlist: Snap shot, post modern' The Big Issue (9-15 October 2000), Gillian Murdoch/li>
A Book of the Book, ed Steven Clay (Granary Books, November 2000 p.423), Jerome Rothenberg
'Review' The British Postcard Collectors Magazine (Autumn/ Winter 2000 p.8), Ron Griffiths
'Stamp of approval for collectors of picture postcards' The Times (19th August 2000), Clare Stewart
'Academy News/Postcards from a century', RA Magazine (Autumn 2000) p.91
'History and its images', The Art Newspaper (October 2000), Agnes Day
'Weather is here, wish you were beautiful' National Post (8th December 2000 p.11), Norman Lebrecht
'Tracing Traces: Variations on the theme of the palimpsest in Tom Phillips’ A Humument' https://www.dropbox.com/s/5oh65pvu6skh5my (ed Graham Coulter-Smith / Molly Schwarzburg, Southampton Institute, 2000 pp.41-48), Molly Schwartzburg
Royal Academy, Royal Academy Illustrated 2010 (RA Books, 2000) p.72
1999
'Review' BBC Music Magazine (May 1999), Mark Pappenheim
'Oranges are not the only fruit' The Express (10th July 1999), Simon Edge
'The Power of the Pen' Art & Antiques (Summer) pp.74-79, Tom Austin
'Cambridge Diversions' The Spectator (27th November) p.72, Robin Holloway
'Twenty-fourth Royal Academy president to be elected subtly' The Art Newspaper (December)
Royal Academy Illustrated 1999 (RA Books, pp.63, 149)
1998
'How We Met' The Independent on Sunday (The Independent, 13th Septermber p.61, Lucy O’Brien)
'Verdian tragedy for our time' The Times Arts Pages (14th September 1998 p.20), Rodney Milnes
'He has done the stage some service, and we know it' The Independent on Sunday (13th September 1998 p.6), Dermot Clinch
'A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel' New Art Examiner (Chicago New Art Association, November 1998 p.60), Tom Csaszar
1997
'Portrait of the artist as a young man (going on sixty)' The Independent (23rd December 1997 p.12), Andrew Lambirth
'A donnish Quixote' The Guardian (1st November pp.26-32), Susannah Frankel
'The Peckham Peeler' The Big Issue (20-26th October p.33), Helen Sumpter
'Inspirational music' RA Magazine (RA Publications, Winter)
'Joy in line, colour, cross' The Church Times (21st November), Richard Davey
'That’s torn it' The Observer (23rd November), Laura Cumming
'Idea-driven and totemic' Financial Times (18th November), William Packer
'Through Tom’s eyes' South London Press (21st October), Cedric Porter
'Life beyond the label' The Spectator (16th August), Andrew Lambirth
'New Lamps For Old' Assemblage 32 (August)
Cambridge Architectural Journal (June)
Daily Mail (4 June), Michael Coveney
Musical Times (March)
Royal Academy Magazine (No. 54 Spring)
Royal Academy Magazine (No.56 Autumn)
Church Times (13 June), Pamela Tudor-Craig
Wall Street Journal (17 June)
Arts Review (February)
1996
'Tom Phillips A Humument: a treated Victorian novel 1973' Artforum (Anthony Korner, November 1996 p.80), William H Gass
Bookworks — A Partial History and Sourcebook, ed Jane Rolo & Ian Hunt (Book Works)
London Magazine, David Frazer Jenkins
Agenda
The Royal Academy Illustrated
1995
'New Haven: Tom Phillips Yale Center for British Art, Creative Wokshop' ARTnews (September, Barbara MacAdam
The Royal Academy Illustrated
Arts Review letter
1994
Art & Auction (January)
Intertextuality in Literature and Film 13th: Conference on Literature and Film, ed Elaine D. Cancalon & Antoine Spacagna, University Press of Florida (31st January)