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Back to SearchWaypoint – “The Fortune Teller”
10 April 2026
Waypoint - “The Fortune Teller” by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is perhaps the greatest writer of B…
9 hours ago
Failures of Imagination: We and Flatland
The “Hideous Bargain” is no longer just about one child’s pain . . .
We investigate the “Euclidean Mind” that seeks to flatten our messy humanity …
1 week ago
Utopia’s Spare Parts: Star Trek & Ishiguro
The “Hideous Bargain” moves from metaphor to the operating table.
In this episode, we let loose the bonds of metaphor in Le Guin’s “Omelas” and mee…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Architecture of the Dungeon: Toni Morrison and the 13th Amendment
The Omelas basement has a physical address in America: the prison-industrial complex.
This week, we use the lens of Toni Morrison’s literary critic…
1 month, 1 week ago
Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange and the Sovereign Center
What happens to the story when the ‘object’ of our sympathy looks back and refuses the role we’ve written for them?
The allegory of the ‘Suffering C…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Bureaucracy of Erasure: Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
Season 6 Episode 73
Your Interpretation is Colonial.
When we turn Zen into a pop-culture vibe or a totem pole into a corporate metaphor, we aren’t learning; we’re commi…
1 month, 4 weeks ago