Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"The art of pleasing – the art of pleasing, at least, at Kellynch Hall": Repetition as a prose version of enjambment in Jane Austen's "Persuasion"

"Wearied in spirits": A passage from Jane Austen's "Emma" that stands out in the pandemic

The official Defense Department statement about yesterday's U. S. airstrikes in Syria

Grateful Dead, Frost Amphitheater, Stanford, April 27-28, 1985

"Subject to being picked up": Black men and police suspicion in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"

"A litany of humiliation" turned into humor in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"