Great Books

‘The Dispossessed’: Ursula K Le Guin’s SciFi novel’s political power endures even 50 years later

The principal character, an idealistic theoretical physicist, was partly based on J Robert Oppenheimer, a friend of Le Guin’s parents.

Alexander Howard, The Conversation
· Jun 16, 2024 · 05:30 pm
Nobel laureate JM Coetzee’s provocative first book turns 50 in 2024. And his most controversial, 25

‘Dusklands’ and ‘Disgrace’ address the complicity of writers in events that are too easily dismissed as beyond their capacity to influence.

Andrew van der Vlies, The Conversation
· Feb 04, 2024 · 05:30 pm
Walter Benjamin’s ‘Illuminations’ is a remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker

The writings in the book were produced between 1923 and 1940. Some were published in journals and other places, but some were only published posthumously.

Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
· Jan 21, 2024 · 05:30 pm

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