Franklin Nelson

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.

Jan 22, 2025 | spectator.com.au | Franklin Nelson

Adam and Eve in Paradise New Directions, pp.64, 11 When José Saramago denounced the Bible as a ‘catalogue of cruelties’ at the launch of his novel Cain in 2009, the response from the Catholic church in Portugal was fast and frosty. The country’s conference of bishops labelled his comments ‘offensive’, adding: ‘Insults do no one any good, particularly from a Nobel prizewinner.

Jan 21, 2025 | spectator.co.uk | Franklin Nelson

When José Saramago denounced the Bible as a ‘catalogue of cruelties’ at the launch of his novel Cain in 2009, the response from the Catholic church in Portugal was fast and frosty. The country’s conference of bishops labelled his comments ‘offensive’, adding: ‘Insults do no one any good, particularly from a Nobel prizewinner.’Saramago might have been taking his cue from the man he considered to be Portugal’s greatest novelist.

Nov 27, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Michael Taylor |Devoney Looser |Franklin Nelson |David Horspool

How has Ireland become one of the powerhouses of global rugby despite an island population of only seven million and at least three sports (football, Gaelic football and hurling) that command more popular attention? More to the point, on an island of so many historical divisions, why is it that rugby (in which the island of Ireland competes as a whole) has been so successful in addressing – or at least not aggravating – those issues of nationality, faith, class and culture?

Oct 30, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Franklin Nelson

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.