Drawing in Crayon
How embarrassed would you be on a scale of one to ten if your mother sealed drawings you made in primary school into envelopes for posterity and they were then put on display? I think I’m at a solid 8/10. But if someone in the Guardian said they were ‘really accomplished’? Maybe a 6. [&he
Shakespeare and Shoes
As a schoolboy in Cape Town in the 1960s, I lapped up books by the American satirical writer, Richard Armour, the author who once reminded us that libraries are “places where you lower your voice and raise your mind”. Although the racially-segregated libraries of apartheid South Africa symboli
