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Tag Archives: Ursula K Le Guin
A Novel Predicted A.I., Zoom, the Internet
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Le Guin and the Power of Affirmation
Le Guin’s story “Things” provides hope for those feeling daunted by Trump’s assault on American democracy.
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Not Rage Or Tears but Radical Hope
With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Lord Tennyson, climate change, Fascism, MAGA, Myth of Sisyphus, nihilism, Things, Ulysses Comments closed
Lit Heals By Keeping Us Off Balance
Different literary techniques have been used over the centuries to keep us on our toes.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift, Left Hand of Darkness, Thomas More, Utopia Comments closed
What To Make of a Diminished Biles
For Simone Biles’s fall from Olympic heights, two Robert Frost poems and Le Guin’s Earthsea Tetralogy bring some needed perspective.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Nothing Gold Can Stay", "Oven Bird", gymnastics, Simone Biles, Tombs of Atuan, Wizard of Earthsea Comments closed
Mrs. Dalloway and the Gift of Aging
Friday My wife Julia alerted me to a luminescent Atlantic article about women disappearing as they grow older. Although some regard this as a problem, author Akiko Busch draws on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway to show how women can turn it to their advantage. First, the apparent problem. When women are treated as objects, they […]
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Happiness Based on Another’s Oppression
To understand why the race card is so politically effective, reading Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”
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