An Ursula LeGuin sci-fi story captures how different cultures respond to catastrophes differently. It’s very relevant to a world confronting Covid.
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Wordsworth and a Depressed Philosopher
When utilitarian John Stuart Mill’s philosophy led him into despair, Wordsworth’s poetry saved him.
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LeGuin Attacks Federal Land Seizure
Sci-fi writer Ursula K. LeGuin recently wrote to the Oregonian complaining that it fails to understand that “federal” land means all our land. It’s a vision she also communicates in her utopian classic “The Dispossessed.”
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Walking a Pilgrimage, Rediscovering Trees
Walking El Camino de Santiago, a friend discovered the healing power described by David Lodge in “Therapy.”
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