Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Nick Cave, Paul Krugman, Sarah Firisen, and the "grotesque mockery" of ChatGPT

The formulaic bullshit of ChatGPT essays

An empty syllabus and a lesson with a silent teacher: My course "Doing the Right Thing: Contemporary Films by African-Americans" in Fall Semester 2017

Closing the library at Stanford with William Carlos Williams and Gabriel García Márquez

"Some useless, although probably harmless, concoction": The unnamed "placebo effect" in Shirley Jackson's "The Third Baby's the Easiest" (1949)

Mugging and "the odor of scared children" in Toni Morrison's "Home" (2012)