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Waywords produces a web of programs and media designed to improve our thinking in democratic action, in critical literacy, in global understanding. We provoke, inspire, and wrestle with the ambiguities and richness of human thinking, from times modern to ancient.
While offering serious educational support for those who want it, Waywords entertains and engages with surprising takes on a wide range of global topics, from Western social trends to modern mythological thinking.
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The Waywords podcasts and blog explore the workings of global literatures, language, and mythology through a social-epistemic rhetoric. Book reviews explore a wide range of genre, era, and region.
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Original prose includes verse, short fiction, work from the ImageMaker cosmogony, the Sam & Nadi English learners series, published collections like Unwoven, and audio drama.
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Programs to support students in lifelong literacy training, Advanced Placement® Literature, IB® Theory of Knowledge, philosophy, composition and critical reading, and English language learning.
Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”
Can some fan-fiction teach us more about carpe diem than a classic Roman poet?
“Riders of the Purple Sage” by Zane Grey
Grey’s classic Western lives up to its reputation of trope-filled storytelling while also surprising in lush scenery, realistic and tense action, and unexpected resolutions.
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Reflections and a growing Reading Guide for Arendt’s enormous history of 20th century totalitarianism, and what we might need to know from it.
March Hail at 5:30 am
An aubade is a poem or song about daybreak in some sense: addressing it, evoking it, about it, accompanying it, etc.
“A Face in the Crowd” by Stephen King
King’s quick novella is as predictable as a Twilight Zone rerun, but the characterizations and dark asides make it entertaining, anyway.
“End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland” by Haruki Murakami (Rubin trans.)
Rubin’s new translation of this classic Murakami re-discovering the story in compelling ways: a must for Murakami fans!
Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11
Can an ancient Roman poet illuminate the concept of carpe diem? Perhaps, but then again . . .
“Anya’s Ghost” by Vera Brosgol –
What begins as a terrific premise of character and culture turns instead to supernatural adventure and a race against the evil. If only this were a bit more ambitious . . .
“The Vegetarian” by Han Kang
Kang’s inapt title disguises a far more sinister and surreal work on the encroachment of male and social expectations for the female body. Readers might ask: what exactly is it that distresses in this novel?
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