Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Greg Brown’s 1990s visions of the future of technology in “Where Is Maria” and “Whatever It Was"

Electric-guitar pioneer Adolph Rickenbacker was born in Basel in 1887

Three great vault songs on Taylor Swift’s 2023 release “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)"

Taylor Swift’s ambition in “Tim McGraw"

Taylor Swift’s “Tim McGraw” and conventional rhetoric

My forthcoming seminar on three novels by Kazuo Ishiguro