Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The irony of a recruiting advertisement for the Basel police department

On being diagnosed with rosacea

Kafka writing “in einem Zug”: not “on a train” but “at a stretch” or “in one go"

Subscribing to Offbeat Jazz in Basel for the first time this millennium

Martín Espada’s poem "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100” and Juan Antonio Corretjer’s poem and Roy Brown’s song “Oubao Moin"

On Charles Dickens as “sentimental, theatrical, moralistic, and controlling” (Zadie Smith) — and the end of “Our Mutual Friend"