You’ll discover, as I did, that Ursula feels most at home in fiction and poetry, more uneasy in the world of declaration and assertion. In her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, she writes, “To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.” And yet, in her essay collections, her literary criticism, her speeches—this arena where she delivers her views on things—whether about science and the environment, Google and Amazon, or feminism and the canon, she seems to do so in defense of the voiceless and in the spirit of the
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