Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"That's not football; these are poems": Poetry as a figure in football commentary

Lynne Truss, Liz Truss, and the "zombie rules" of grammar and economics

The youngest Nobel laureates in literature were Rudyard Kipling and Albert Camus

Sherlock Holmes's "Parthian shot" in Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" (1887)

Three weeks of covid and two weeks of missed classes

Thomas Wentworth Higginson and post-Civil War textbooks on American history