Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Abstract: On Truth and Lies in a Swiftian Sense

"I do not agree with being a white Otello”: White tenor Francesco Meli apparently thinks opera audiences are stupid and unimaginative

“And so they went on […] keen for the worry”: An evening with the Finnegans Wake Reading Group in Basel

Names of bands I’ve been in from the 1980s to today

How to write a Bob Dylan song: A creative-writing exercise

Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “Summer” and a "hieroglyphic profile” of Napoleon in Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major" (1880)