Brian Attebery is editor of the Library of America’s volumes of the works of Ursula K. Le Guin. He received the World Fantasy Award for editing the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Mythopoeic Award for his most recent critical book, Fantasy: How It Works (2022). He is professor emeritus of English at Idaho State University and is one of the series editors for Perspectives on Fantasy from Bloomsbury Academic Press.
Brian Attebery
Articles
Through a Herne’s Eye: On Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Five Novels”
Brian Attebery offers a critical reflection on five of Ursula K. Le Guin's short novels, recently reissued by Library of America.
Who Controls the Narrative?: On David M. Higgins’s “Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood”
Higgins’s new book examines the reactionary imagination in contemporary science fiction.
Between Mansfield Park and Bradburyland
"Gifts for the One Who Comes After" moves freely between Mansfield Park and Bradburyland, finding that hidden area where the two overlap.
Weaving a Hedge
Forced Exuberance
Nightmarish Glimpses of Our Inner Selves
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
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