Love and Anti-Love Stories
Posted on February 08, 2022
This Valentine's Day, you can take students beyond the usual hearts and flowers with the dystopian graphic fable "Sharing," from China.
4 Global Stories of Book Bans, Censorship, and Freedom
Posted on January 26, 2022
"Who told you to read such a book?" So says a teacher to the young Habibe Jafarian in her memoir-essay, "For the Love of the Books," which describes growing up as a book-loving girl in Iran's most religious city.
A Dominican "Self-Portrait" to Inspire Students' Self-Reflections
Posted on January 13, 2022
Which experiences have a greater influence on us—our successes, or the times when we've been hurt? Frank Báez's bravura poem "Self-Portrait" makes an excellent case for the latter. It is an alternately humorous and horrifying catalog of a lifetime of mishaps, injuries, victimizations, and miscommunications, punctuated with a few moments that invoke the possibility of joy:
Worlds Collide in a Haitian Chance Encounter
Posted on December 29, 2021
A man, a woman, a street, a chance meeting . . . A reader might consider all of this a setup for romance, but Évelyne Trouillot's short story "Detour" delivers something quite different.
6 Global Parties
Posted on December 15, 2021
In the party mood, or not so much? Here are six selections from WWB Campus that provide unexpected—and sometimes even clashing!—perspectives on celebrations around the world.