Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"Booth, Jefferson, Mansfield" and the decline of the American theater in John Dos Passos's "Manhattan Transfer"

Violet Trace takes off one shoe in Toni Morrison's "Jazz"

The sixtieth anniversary of my parents' wedding

Pregancy advice from five countries in 1999

Burn bags

Heiner Müller's production of "Hamlet" at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1991