Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Immortality and Mortality in Duolingo

Don Quixote in Charles Dickens’s “Our Mutual Friend” (1865)

Discovering the riveting poems of Manuel Ramos Otero

A sisterly scene on the tram in Basel

A new sense of “drain the swamp” in a statement by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

“The property of strangers” in Charles Dickens’s “Our Mutual Friend” (1865) and “the kindness of strangers” in Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947)