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Note: This isn't even remotely close to complete. Also check out the compiled listing of papers on feminist science fiction; there are some Le Guin papers there, which are not cited here yet. Sometime I hope to have these listings in a database and neatly organized and cross-referenced. Until then this may be a place to get started. -- lq

• Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary Bibliography, compiled by David S. Bratman (Oakland, CA: Potlatch 4, 1995)
  This bibliography is extraordinarily comprehensive. It can be purchased for $12 from the editor:
  David Bratman
  P.O. Box 662
  Los Altos CA 94023
  mail: dbratman@genie.idt.net
  More information on the bibliography can be found at his web page, at http://www.stanford.edu/~dbratman/leguin.html

• Paul Brians' Study Guide on The Dispossessed
  
• Reviews from The Good Reading Guide
• Reviews from The Good Reading Guide
• Le Guin and Anarchism (coming soon)
• Berkley, Miriam. "Ursula K. Le Guin." Publishers Weekly v. 229 (May 23 1986), page 72.
• Bittner, Jim. Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1979)
• Bloom, Harold, editor. Ursula K. Le Guin (anthology) --, editor. Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" (Chelsea House Pub.: 1987; ISBN 155546064X) (Modern Critical Interpretations series) anthology.
• Bratman, David S., compiled. "Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary Bibliography", Preliminary edition, February 1995. 42 pages. Contact d.bratman@genie.com for more information ...
• Cadden, Mike. Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults. New York and London: Routledge, Inc., 2005. (Volume 33 of the series "Children's Literature and Culture," General Editor: Jack Zipes) 203 pp.
• Cadden, Mike. "Taking Different Roads to the City: The Development of Ursula K. Le Guin's Young Adult Novels." Extrapolation 47.3 (Winter 2006): 427-44. Special issue on Ursula K. Le Guin.
• Cadden, Mike. "Purposeful Movement Among People and Places: The Sense of Home in Ursula K. Le Guin?s Fiction for Children and Adults." Extrapolation 41.4 (Winter 2000): 338-50.
• Cadden, Mike. "Speaking to the Needs of Genre: Le Guin's Ethics of Audience." The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 24.1 (2000): 128-42. (Reprinted in Children's Literature Review 91 (2003), Gale Publishing)
• Cadden, Mike. "Speaking Across the Spaces Between Us: Ursula Le Guin's Dialogic Use of Character in Children's and Adult Literature." Para*doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 2.3-4 (1996): 516-30.
• Cogell, Elizabeth C. Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall: 1983, ISBN 0816181551)
• Cummins, Elizabeth. Understanding Ursula K. LeGuin. Revised Edition. (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.) (Understanding Contemporary American Literature).
• De Bolt, Joe, editor. Ursula K. Le Guin: Voyager to Inner Lands and to Outer Space. Associated Faculty Press, 1978 (ISBN 0804692297); Kennikat Press, 1979, 1991.
• Fadiman, Anne. "Ursula K Le Guin: Voyager to the Inner Land." Life v. 9 (April 1986), pages 23-25.
• Fitting, Peter. "The Turn from Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction." in Libby Falk Jones, Sarah Webster Goodwin, editors, Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. pages 141-158. about: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue, Zoe Ann Fairbairns Benefits, and Ursula K Le Guin's Always Coming Home
• Greenberg, M. H., and J. D. Olander, editors. Ursula K. Le Guin (1979) anthology
• Hatfield, Len. "From Master to Brother: Shifting the Balance of Authority in Ursula K. Le Guin's Farthest Shore and Tehanu." Children's Literature v. 21 (1993). Response by Perry Nodelman in Children's Literature 23 (1995).
• Keulen, Margarete. Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Sally Miller Gearhart.
• Klarer, Mario. "Gender and the `Simultaneity Principle': Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed." Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba) v. 25 (Spring 1992), pages 107-121.
• Lefanu, Sarah. "The King Is Pregnant." Guardian Jan. 3, 2004. Available at http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4828125-110738,00.html . (on The Left Hand of Darkness)
• --. Essay, Spare Rib 1975 (on The Left Hand of Darkness).
• Lem, Stanislaw. SF Commentary 24, November 1971, pages 22-24. Review of Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Originally published in Quarber Merkur no. 25 and translated from the German by Franz Rottensteiner and revised by Bruce Gillespie.
• McKinley, Robin. "Book Review: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea." The New York Times Book Review v. 95 (May 20 1990) page 38.
• Parrinder, P. "The Alien Encounter: Or, Ms. Brown and Mrs. Le Guin." Science Fiction Studies Volume 3, Part 1. (1976). Reprinted in P. Parrinder (ed.) SF: A Critical Guide: London: Longman, 1979: pages 148-161.
• Pegg, Barry. "Down to Earth: Terrain, Territory, and the Language of Realism in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed." Michigan Academician XXVII Number 4 (August 1995), pages 481-492.

• Rass, Rebecca. Ursula Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness": A Critical Commentary (Monarch Notes). Hungry Minds, Inc.: 1990 (ISBN 067168759X)
• Reginald, Robert, and George Slusser, eds. Zephyr and Boreas, Winds of Change in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (San Bernadino, CA: Borgo Press, 1997)
• Rhodes, Jewel P. "Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny and the Feminist Utopian vision." Women and Utopia. Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983.
• Rochelle, Warren G. Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Liverpool Univ. Press: 2000; ISBN 0853238863)
• Science Fiction Studies Volume 2, Part 3. Number 7. (November 1975). Special Issue, entitled "The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin."
• Selinger, Bernard. Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No. 16); UMI Research Press: November 1987 (ISBN 083571831X)
• Slusser, George Edgar. The Farthest Shores of Ursula K. Le Guin (chapbook, 1976)
• Spector, Judith A. "The Functions of Sexuality in the Science Fiction of Russ, Piercy, and Le Guin." in Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages 197-207.
• Spivack, Charlotte. Ursula K. Le Guin (Twayne Pub.; ISBN 0805774300; reprint ed. March 1984).

• Wayne, Kathryn Ross. Redefining Moral Education: Life, Le Guin and Language (Austin & Winfield: Lanham, Maryland, 1996, ISBN 1880921855; 162 pp). Examines The Word for World Is Forest and Always Coming Home, and analyzes Le Guin's work in the context of ecofeminism and other ecological movements. Looks specifically at education and language.
• Welton, Ann. "Earthsea Revisited: Tehanu and Feminism (Ursula Le Guin has never shrunk from addressing large issues)" Voice of Youth Advocates Volume 14 (April 1991) pages 14-16. Related: Miles, Margaret A., Discussion, Volume 14, December 1991, pages 301-302.
• White, Donna R. Dancing With Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics (Ontario: Camden House: March 1999; ISBN 1571130349)
• Whyte, Nicholas. Review of The Dispossessed. Aug. 20, 2001. Available at http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/disp.htm; last visited, 2003-Feb-18.