Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

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"

Civil rights as collective work becomes an individual's heroism in "Marshall"

"My heart had stopped to beat": A solecism in Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire"