Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The shirt in Walter Benjamin’s Franz Kafka essay and the scarf in Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well"

My students and the animal imagery in a passage about Mr. Bounderby in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854)

Somi and the microphone at her concert in Basel on 23 March 2024

Pale young woman with long brown hair at the supermarket

Remembering reading Isak Dinesen’s “The Blank Page” (1957) and teaching it today

Holiday sauce, the Easy Bunny, and our familect