Reading “Land of Precious Snow” by Thaddeus Tuleja

Thaddeus Tuleja's Land of Precious Snow (1977) is a fantasy-adjacent historical fiction novel about religious and spiritual experience, disaffection with modernity, and an American adventurer seeking new meaning in 1890s Tibet—a novel that captures counterculture's dissident feelings toward life in postwar America.

Sexual Violence in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: Toward an Interpretation

This is the text of a paper about Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed written in 2015 for a graduate-level academic conference. It is roughly a decade old and the work of a scholar in his first year of graduate school.