Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"Big went the bang" in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" and the coining of the expression "The Big Bang"

A new study on blood type and susceptibility to SARS-Cov-2 infection

"Me and my boyfriend / My boyfriend and I": The grammar of an unidentified song in John Dos Passos's "Manhattan Transfer"

Waiting for a coronavirus test result

"We flesh": The zero copula in Baby Suggs's sermon in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"

"They're all the same, but each one is different from every other one": Photographs, Harvey Keitel, and William Hurt in Wayne Wang's "Smoke" (1995)