As with many other people, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed was both a gateway into science fiction for me as a child, as well as a very early political textbook. The bleak egalitarianism…| anenduringromantic
When I first learned of the maritime mood for this month’s Wyrd & Wonder, my mind went straight to Le Guin’s classic, A Wizard of Earthsea. You see, not only is it one of the keysto…| Peat Long's Blog
By Ursula K Le Guin I first read A Wizard of Earthsea when I was 15, as required reading in my English class. I was already reading adult fantasy at the time and remember not being all that impress…| Dragon Rambles
Salutations, lecteur. Aujourd’hui, je vais te parler d’un roman qui confronte des militants farouchement pacifistes à une répression violente et brutale. L’œil du héron, d’Ursula Le Gui…| Les Chroniques du Chroniqueur
To mark the publication of John’s book Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea (My Reading), with Oxford University Press, John and Elizabeth take to the airways to share their love of Le Guin’s “speculative anthropology,” gender politics, and goats. And we share a delight we’ve been holding back for just this occasion, a series of clips from … Continue reading "112 Earthsea, and other realms: Ursula Le Guin as social inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])"| Recall This Book
There is a language the world speaks, and I think I have been listening for it my whole life. For a long time I thought it was only something that existed in the fantasy novels so beloved to me as a girl, where women spoke with birds and knew the whisperings of plants and the medicine they carried. But I know it for something real now, of this world, the one I live in, the one my body moves through every day and every starry night, the one that feeds and sustains me in every way. I know it fo...| The Gleewoman's Notes
Things in the world have been growing darker and darker for a while now. But last night, upon hearing news of the Nice attack, something shifted inside of me. A new layer of horror, of sorrow, of fear—this is no longer becoming a reality. It is a reality. This unbounded, rampant hate. We opened Pandora's box a long time ago, and then forgot what it might mean. Now, I fear, we are remembering, and it is terrible. The level of uncontrollable hatred is reaching a mythic pitch, and I am taki...| The Gleewoman's Notes
I've been reading a lot of Ursula Le Guin recently. I won't hesitate to call it an obsession. But maybe the better word is an apprenticeship, or a hunger, or both. I've apprenticed myself unconsciously to her words, because they are full of something I am hungry for, something I didn't know I was hungry for until I found it. For a while I couldn't articulate what "it" was. Only that the way she made worlds, and words, filled me up with a sense of both light and dark, a sense of rightness and ...| The Gleewoman's Notes