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3 days ago · Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər l ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / KROH-bər lə GWIN; née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction , including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe , and the Earthsea fantasy series.
1 day ago · Ursula K. Le Guin, an American author of novels and children's books, poses for a photo at home on Sept. 9, 2001, in Portland, Ore. The former home of the late Le Guin is being readied to become a ...
1 day ago · Between the 20th of July and the 7th of August 1789, it is the Great Fear. At the news of a so-called "aristocratic plot" helped by brigands and foreign powers, the peasants rise up in the countryside and destroy the coat of arms of the nobles or burn all tax documents. Jeu de Paume Oath, Jacques-Louis David, 1792.
22 hours ago · 8 Faith Barter, “Encrypted Citations: The Bondwoman’s Narrative and the Case of Jane Johnson,” MELUS 46 (2021): 51–74; Stephanie DeGooyer, Before Borders (note 2 above); Ted Hamilton, “Speculative Constitutions in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle and the Rights of Nature,” Law & Literature (2022): 1–23 (available in advance ...
2 days ago · The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin. This sci-fi novel by the seminal Le Guin looks at utopia from two different angles. Our protagonist, Shevek, lives in what the residents consider to be a ...
3 days ago · Blakeley makes the compelling argument that capitalism has not ‘failed’, but that the crises of the 21st century are the intended result of the capitalist system, and more than a ‘reimagining’ of the dominant economic model is required to rectify this. I’m also making my way through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle.
5 days ago · As Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote: "Books, books, books. In the study, on the bedside table, on the floor, in the bathroom, in the nursery, in the corridors, in the kitchen — piles of books, walls of books, growing population of books." This is the world I want to keep living in. But it's one increasingly at risk. Share
