Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The paradoxical advantage of not knowing a language well: "Cien años de soledad" and me

On the arbitrariness of the usage rules that arise in public discussion

The story of "literally"

"Literally devoured the books": Describing the prescriptivist proscription of the figurative "literally" as an intensifier

"Only in the head of a musician": The rejection of the novel in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"

"Philoctetes / in woman's form": André Gide in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"