Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Racist attacks on Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and the systematic racist effects of redlining in the city

Beyoncé’s incredible run: "Lemonade" (2016), "Renaissance" (2022), and "Cowboy Carter" (2024)

"Your body renews itself every seven years”: An idea that’s been around at least since John Dos Passos’s novel “Manhattan Transfer” (1925)

Reafference, exafference, and a possible origin of the mind (thanks to Ed Yong’s “An Immense World”)

My imaginary eleven-piece band for a joint country-pop tour by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift

Hapax legomena in Taylor Swift’s “crumpled masterpiece”, “All Too Well (Ten-Minute Version)"