Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Remembering reading Philip Levine’s poem “28” in “The New Yorker” in September 1986

Two Swiss People’s Party politicians in a scuffle with the police

The alleged “weaponization” of the legal system in the United States and the conviction of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on felony gun charges

United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and the “polarization” of United States politics

Art, “its own special reality”, and the unreliability of Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” (1962)

A bike ride on a rainy summer evening