Andrew Shields

"A litany of humiliation" turned into humor in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"

Civil rights as collective work becomes an individual's heroism in "Marshall"

"My heart had stopped to beat": A solecism in Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire"

A scene in "Marshall": Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston

Fagin "the Jew" and Quilp "the dwarf" in Charles Dickens

The contrast between quoting Denise Levertov and quoting John Ashbery