Andrew Shields

An empty syllabus and a lesson with a silent teacher: My course "Doing the Right Thing: Contemporary Films by African-Americans" in Fall Semester 2017

Closing the library at Stanford with William Carlos Williams and Gabriel García Márquez

"Some useless, although probably harmless, concoction": The unnamed "placebo effect" in Shirley Jackson's "The Third Baby's the Easiest" (1949)

Mugging and "the odor of scared children" in Toni Morrison's "Home" (2012)

The Treaty of Nerchinsk: A treaty between Russia and China that was written in Latin

Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page at the ARMS benefit at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, December 1983