Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The draw procedures at Grand Slam tennis tournaments make defeating four top-ten players unlikely

Peter Falk's "Columbo" and Mr. Bucket in Charles Dickens's "Bleak House"

The Swiss Football League's token punishment for Marius Müller's homophobic speech

On not discussing Alexander Grothendieck with my father

Football as figure and sport in Charles Dickens's "Dombey and Son" and "Bleak House"

Eight or fourteen generations? A correction in the New Yorker