Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics (review)

Anyone writing about Ursula Le Guin has to come to terms with the slippery nature of genre categories, as Donna White acknowledges. Le Guin, an award-winning writer in multiple genres and for varied audiences, makes any effort to organize the body of critical approaches to her work an exasperating exercise in typology. White presents us with a useful survey of that criticism with a lively voice as well as with the full recognition of the difficulty of coming to terms with the "balkanized nature of Le Guin scholarship" (5).