Over dinner a few months ago with some musician and writer friends outside of Portland, a conversation about songwriting turned into a conversation about poetry, which led me to ask two of the writers ...

"Grieving … is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been ...

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 ...

Even before her death, Ursula K. Le Guin had become one of the literary world’s secular saints. Since her passing, her halo has only grown brighter: In a rhapsodic piece for Literary Hub in 2022, four ...

A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin isn’t a typical exhibition. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin wasn’t a typical artist. Curated by her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, the new show installed at Oregon Contemporary ...

How do you make a writer’s work and life come alive on the walls of an art gallery? Manuscripts, mugs of coffee, laptop computers with crumbs stuck in the keys—none of these is particularly visually ...

Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Or at least how it seemed from the ...