Le Guin
Americannoun
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On Jan. 16, 2018, Le Guin told Bloom that she had read Emily Wilson’s recent translation of “The Odyssey” after Christmas “with some disappointment—too often her ear turns to tin.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“What’s the function of a galaxy?” the speculative fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin once asked.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2025
I remember I read Ursula K. Le Guin when I was a kid and loved her books, but they were definitely science fiction and fantasy.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2023
In her 2009 essay “On the Frontier,” Ursula K. Le Guin took stock of an abstraction endemic to both the American West, where she was raised, and her chosen genre of science fiction.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
I think again and again of a story we read last year by Ursula Le Guin about a utopian city whose bliss can only exist because of its one horrifying atrocity.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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