Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Remembering the art criticism of Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022)

Songs and poems written in ballad form about highly publicized events: Silverstein, Dylan, Randall, Young, and Lightfoot

"A woman talks on the phone": A phrase that made me stumble in a 2004 poem by Adrienne Rich

The dynamics of the speech of a German television football commentator

Philip Carey's joyful acceptance at the end of W. Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage"

The liberals, the conservatives, and electoral fraud in Gabriel García Márquez's "Cien años de soledad"