by Nigel Scotchmer | Jun 30, 2026 | Art
Nigel writes about his experience at an exhibition at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture – Ithra Centre in Dhrahan, Saudi Arabia. The View, by Rima Mardam Bey, 1983 During my visit to Saudi Arabia this year, I went to an exhibition of women artists...
by Nigel Scotchmer | Jun 23, 2026 | Essays
A missionary family raises four boys in one of Madrid’s most drug-ravaged neighbourhoods. Jonathan Tepper’s memoir traces an extraordinary journey. Jonathan Tepper’s Shooting Up is much more than the account of four brothers in a missionary family growing...
by Nigel Scotchmer | May 19, 2026 | Essays
A drive down from myth-haunted Mt. Parnassus into the passes, graveyards, and battlefields Picture Credits: Edward Dodwell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons It is said that Zeus, the great philanderer, lay with Mnemosyne (Memory), a Titan, for a marathon...
by Nigel Scotchmer | Mar 17, 2026 | Humour
In this Forgotten Heroes story, Alfred Russel Wallace, flying whales called linanders, and a peace-making dish collide in an improbable history of the world’s most famous rice pan. Recently discovered petroglyph of a linander assisting ancient boy scouts...
by Nigel Scotchmer | Mar 10, 2026 | Essays
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a finished piece must be in want of a community. How many of us have agonized over our drafts restlessly and endlessly, wondering who to read it to and what to do with it? We, at the Irony Club,...