Modern

Ursula K. Le Guin

1929–2018

Novelist of other arrangements

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. She said it in a National Book Award speech in 2014, late, and smiling, and not joking. The novels had been practicing the thought for fifty years.

In the canon

  1. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.Speech at the National Book Awards

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