Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

“In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” in memory of Dickey Betts (1943-2024)

Taylor Swift, Friedrich Nietzsche, and aphorisms

Paul Krugman on “GOP radicalism” and the failure of “centrists” to see it

The compression of the time frame in James Ivory's 1993 film of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "The Remains of the Day"

Faith Ringgold at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts in February 2024

Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” and the 200th Anniversary of the death of Lord Byron