Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Telephones and technological ambivalence in three songs by Greg Brown from 1988 to 2006

On a swingset in an empty playground in Kharkiv, Ukraine

An only partly apocryphal story about Xerox’s early work on personal computers

“Negatived” in Charles Dicken’s “Little Dorrit” (1857) and “Our Mutual Friend” (1865)

Lost dog in Basel-Stadt: Not much help from the supposedly responsible authorities

Medical Emergencies at a football match and a movie showing