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Tom Lubbock

Art critic

United Kingdom · 1957–2011

Chief art critic of the Independent and a collage artist. Diagnosed in 2008 with a glioblastoma sited next to the speech area of his brain, he kept a journal of losing language while continuing to file reviews, published in the Observer three months before his death and posthumously as Until Further Notice, I Am Alive.

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Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains read 55 other answers →
It is a very rare affliction. A GP would expect to meet it once in a career and this form of brain cancer is unpredictable and dangerous. Usually, this tumour might give you only a two-year span since its discovery. I have had two operations and one course of radiotherapy and now three chemotherapies (one currently starting). My death is, in a sense, imminent. I say to myself: I am dying. Something in my head is hurrying to kill me.

Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010; published on the Guardian website under the title 'When Words Failed Me', 7 November 2010 source ↗

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