Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Both books are modest in size and deliberate in manner. Each represents a late-career narrowing rather than an expansion: a ...

In the highest reaches of the starry pantheon of science fiction and fantasy resides Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), master of many literary genres and forms: short stories, essays, speeches, ...

Ursula K. Le Guin, a prolific novelist best known for the Earthsea series and The Left Hand of Darkness, died Monday at the age of 88. Across more than 20 novels and scores of short stories, Le Guin ...

Update: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber was named winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for “The House of Rust” on Friday night. “Scene after scene is gleaming, textured, utterly devoid ...

Ursula Le Guin wrote about fellow fantasy author JK Rowling, “The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers.” I didn't originate ...

Mark your calendar for 2026. That’s when the first and only authorized biography of the late Portland literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin is scheduled to be published by Virago, a British publisher that ...

NORTH ADAMS — Eden Robins' unconventional novel that explores grief, AI and human connections has been shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. "Remember You Will Die," is among ...

Portland author Alissa Hattman has made the shortlist for the nationwide 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Sift (The 3rd Thing Press, 120 pages, $24). After an open ...

Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away in 2018, was one of the most influential voices in science fiction and fantasy. She excelled at engaging genre fiction, but her books are far from pulp. They're all ...