Reading to Borges by Nicholas Shakespeare The 2010 Borges Lecture to the Anglo-Argentine Society One of my most rewarding moments as a young journalist on the Times was to publish, for the first time in English, the last story written by Jorge Luis Borges. The story – [...]

Martha Gellhorn Remembered by Nicholas Shakespeare I had known Martha Gellhorn ten years when she decided to investigate the plight of street children in Brazil. I put her in touch with my sister who worked with children from the Pelourinho in Salvador. On the eve of her [...]

My Favourite Cricketer by Nicholas Shakespeare It is hard to be an English cricket fan in Tasmania. “We’re going to murder you next year,” was one of the milder sledgings I received in the corner store when I commiserated over Australia’s Ashes defeat. Still, as I struggle [...]

Ian Fairweather – Britain’s Gauguin Britain’s Gauguin One night in April 1952 near Darwin, a strange, shy man, sixty-years old, with a cultured voice and intense pale blue eyes, climbed aboard a raft that he had constructed from aircraft drop tanks, and shoved off into the Timor [...]

W.H.Hudson PREFACE ‘THERE was no one I thought more highly of as a man, or respected as a genius,’ Cunninghame Graham wrote of W. H. Hudson shortly after his death in 1922. ‘That he was a genius, 1 think all his real admirers know. Some day the [...]

Charles Macomb Flandrau EPILOGUE THE echoed sob of history. Coming to the final paragraph of Viva Mexico! one reader – a commuter from Pittsburgh – was stung to his own tears. “It was just so good that I had to have a good cry about it.” He [...]