Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

A New Yorker cartoon and the fantasy of emigration from a reactionary United States

“Allkey dallkey”: Four years of rereading “Finnegans Wake”

A phrase about Paul Celan and the title of a book by Alfred Bodenheimer

Doctor Eckleburg in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925) and King Gillette in John Dos Passos's "Manhattan Transfer" (1925)

Racist attacks on Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and the systematic racist effects of redlining in the city

Beyoncé’s incredible run: "Lemonade" (2016), "Renaissance" (2022), and "Cowboy Carter" (2024)