Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Aggressive driving on the Autobahn

Violence as "isolated" or "emblematic"

Listening to music I haven't listened to in a long time: The Brad Mehldau Trio, "Art of the Trio, Volume 1" (1996)

The second-generation immigrant becomes a migrant herself: Denise Levertov's "A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England"

"If you had real houses back in Africa": Americans and Africa in a story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On first reading Paul Celan, for his 100th birthday