Classical pop quiz: Name the bride in “The Aeneid.” Oh, I’m sorry. Dido is incorrect. (For those of you who checked the book information: No fair!) If the name escapes you, it’s not surprising. As ...

Ursula K. Le Guin, whose series of Earthsea books have delighted children, adolescents, and adults alike for three decades, has one of the most refined moral sensibilities of any fantasist. True, she ...

Ursula Le Guin has brought mainstream recognition to science fiction in a successful career that has endured for sixty years, with books that include The Left Hand of Darkness, Lavinia, and the ...

A Longish Note on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lavinia. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lavinia is a beautifully written addition to Le Guin’s canon and a fine novel. If it gets the attention it deserves, it will also be ...

Diana Bellessi, Author, Ursula K. Le Guin, Author Arte Publico Press $16.95 (225p) ISBN 978-1-55885-170-2 Through correspondence, Le Guin, a prolific American writer (The Left Hand of Darkness; ...

Ursula Le Guin, best known for her works of science fiction and fantasy, has been writing and publishing novels, children’s books, poetry and drama for more than four decades. In December, she ...

Originally published as “Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds” in the Winter 2019 issue of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Places, real and ...