Man, Woman, Country, Uncountry

Ace Books, 1969, 286 pp.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich

Last summer I read a book about a planet called Winter. Last winter I read it again. It was better that way, trooping through ten-degree nights, slipping on poorly salted ice, and imagining myself elsewhere. Winter—that is, the planet—is a foreigner’s colloquialism. Its inhabitants call it Gethen. Ursula K. Le Guin created Gethen for her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, published . . .