Eleanor Barraclough

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Franklin Nelson |Paul Cartledge |Eleanor Barraclough |Helen Czerski

A man wearing a dark rollneck sweater and a long coat stands in front of a two-tone door, his brow furrowed and his beard overgrown. Staring into the camera as if for a mugshot, he holds a newspaper in front of him. “Fire Bomb Attack on Black People: Unity Centre Bombed”, reads the front page. This cover-image introduction to the writer Farrukh Dhondy constitutes just one of the “fragments” he has “shored against [his] ruin”, after the closing stanza of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.