Everyone could use a forest of Albunea, a place where dreams, ghosts, owls, oracles and ancestors offer hints about your fate and advice about difficult decisions. In "Lavinia" (Harcourt. $24, 280 ...

Classical pop quiz: Name the bride in “The Aeneid.” Oh, I’m sorry. Dido is incorrect. (For those of you who checked the book information: No fair!) If the name escapes you, it’s not surprising. As ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Ursula Le Guin has brought mainstream recognition to science fiction in a successful career that has endured for sixty years, with books that include The Left Hand of Darkness, Lavinia, and the ...

“Oh Lavinia,” says the ghost of a poet to the title character of Ursula K. Le Guin’s new novel, “Lavinia,” “You are worth ten Camillas. And I never saw it.” The ghost is Virgil, the great Latin poet ...

Ursula K. Le Guin, whose series of Earthsea books have delighted children, adolescents, and adults alike for three decades, has one of the most refined moral sensibilities of any fantasist. True, she ...

Diana Bellessi, Author, Ursula K. Le Guin, Author Arte Publico Press $16.95 (225p) ISBN 978-1-55885-170-2 Through correspondence, Le Guin, a prolific American writer (The Left Hand of Darkness; ...

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of those rare sci-fi and fantasy authors whose fiction is widely viewed as literature, while still maintaining the magic and adventure sought by genre fans. Her fantastic and ...

Reporting from Portland, Ore. — Forest Park is one of the largest patches of urban wilderness in the United States, and the Victorian homes and gardens nearby create an air of Tolkienesque enchantment ...

In Virgil's epic The Aeneid, Lavinia of Latium is a minor character. She doesn't even show up until the last six books of the poem, and when she does arrive, it's to serve as a sub-par Helen Of Troy, ...