Andrew Shields

Moments when Brian Blade and then Scott Colley decided not to play: The Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio, Jazz Campus Basel, 27 February 2026

Thomas Hardy’s “The Bridge of Lodi” and Elizabeth Bishop’s “Questions of Travel"

The three parts of the first instrumental break in The Grateful Dead’s performance of “Uncle John’s Band” on 26 December 1979

The acknowledgments in the preface to Thomas Hardy’s “Poems of the Past and the Present” (1901)

The tension between short-term and long-term political goals in “Avatar: The Last Airbender"

Narcissistic authoritarianism in “Avatar: The Last Airbender"