I initially put this secondary bibliography together while doing research on a paper about Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantastic novel The Left Hand of Darkness (LHD) for the History of Science Fiction II class at the Mythgard Institute.
I added links to common resources, such as full-text archives like JSTOR, for additional research and later reference. I added notes about how the content applies to where it seemed appropriate.
I started building this list simply by copying citations in the various articles I was reading for my paper. The following resources were invaluable in putting it together:
- The bibliography in Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion (at least, the parts viewable at Google Books)
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB)
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database (SFFRD)
This information is provided “as-is.” It’s not comprehensive, and undoubtedly there are many other great secondary sources. I also may have missed a link or several. If you know of an additional resource I missed, a link I overlooked, or have a correction to something I mis-cited, please contact me.
A list of abbreviations is provided after the list.
Academic Articles/Books
Adams, Rebecca. “Narrative Voice and Unimaginability of the Utopian ‘Feminine’ in Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Utopian Studies 2.1-2 (1991): 35-47. [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Anderson, Erland. “Three Cheers for Science Fiction.” College Composition and Communication 25.2 (1974): 203-5. [SSFRD] [LHD mentioned in list of suggested readings, footnote 1 on p. 204]
Angenot, Marc. “The Absent Paradigm: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 6.1 (1979): 9-19. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD] [LHD referred to on p. 16]
Annas, Pamela J. “New Worlds, New Words: Androgyny in Feminist Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 5.2 (1978): 143-156. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB]
Attebery, Brian. Decoding Gender in Science Fiction. New York: Rutledge, 2002.
Barbour, Douglas. “Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin.” Science Fiction Studies 1.3 (1974): 164-73. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB]
Barr, Marleen S. “Charles Bronson, Samurai, and Other Feminine Images and Transactive Responses to The Left Hand of Darkness.” Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Marleen Barr. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1981. 138-54. [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Barrow, Craig and Diana Barrow. “The Left Hand of Darkness: Feminism for Men.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 20.1 (1987): 83–96. [SSFRD]
Bary, Nora. “Beyond Words: The Impact of Rhythm as Narrative Technique in The Left Hand of Darkness.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 33 (1992): 154–65. [SSFRD]
Bengels, Barbara. “Sex and the Single Man: The Left Hand of Darkness.” Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature 9.1 (1987): 16–18. [SSFRD]
Bernardo, Susan M. and Graham J. Murphy, Eds. “The Left Hand of Darkness (1969).” Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 21-33. [ISFDB]
Bickman, Martin. “Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness: Form and Content.” Science Fiction Studies 4.1 (1977): 42-47. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD] [Collected in Bloom]
Bird, Nona. Androgyny–the symbol of resolution and unity: an analysis of the theme and of its use in Orlando by Virginia Woolf and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. Sacramento: California State University, 1985. [SSFRD] [Master’s thesis]
Bloom, Harold, Ed. Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkenss. New York: Chealsea, 1987. [OL] [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Booth, Alison. “Feminist Criticism at the ‘English’ Track Meet.” Callaloo 17.2 (1994): 559-563. [JSTOR] [LHD mentioned on p. 562]
Brown, Barbara. “The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny, Future, Present, and Past.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 21 (1980): 227–35. [Collected in Bloom]
Briggs, Peter. “The Archetype of the Journey in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Fiction.” Ursula K. Le Guin. Eds. Joseph Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg. Polly Harris, 1979. 36-63. [ISFDB]
Buhle, Paul. “Overcoming the Memory.” Social Text 9-10 (1984): 275-79. [JSTOR] [LHD mentioned on p. 278]
Buknall, Barbara J. “Androgynes in Outer Space.” Critical Encounters: Writers and Themes in Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Riley. New York: Ungar, 1978. 56–69. [OL] [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Call, Lewis. “Postmodern Anarchism in the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin.” SubStance 36.2 (2007): 87-105. [Full Text (on author’s website)]
Clemens, Anna. “Art, Myth and Ritual in Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d’Etudes Americaines 17 (1986): 423–36. [SSFRD]
Cogell, Elizabeth Cummins. “Setting as Analogue to Characterization in Ursula Le Guin.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 18 (1977): 131–41.
—. Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983. [According to a review by James W. Bittner (SFS 10.3, p. 350 {JSTOR}), contains a list of “130 secondary works that mention or discuss” LHD.]
Collins, Samuel Gerald. “Sail on! Sail on!: Anthropology, Science Fiction, and the Enticing Future.” Science Fiction Studies 30.2 (2003): 180-98. [LHD covered on p. 183]
Cornell, Christine. “The Interpretive Journey in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 42 (2001): 317-27. [SSFRD]
Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Istvan. “The Left Hand of Darkness.” The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. 41-44. [GBooks] [ISFDB] [Several other references throughout the rest of the book]
—. “The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 23.3 (1996): 385-88. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [LHD listed on p. 385]
Cummins, Elizabeth. “The Land-Lady’s Homebirth: Revisiting Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds.” Science Fiction Studies 17.2 (1990): 153-66. [DePauw] [JSTOR]
Dalton, Kathleen M. and E. Anthony Rotundo. “Teaching Gender History to Secondary School Students.” The Journal of American History 86.4 (2000): 1715-20. [LHD referenced on p. 1717.]
Dahl, Arin Taylor. “Gender as Metaphor for Wholeness in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.” Reflections 6 (2006). [California State University East Bay]
Dietz, Frank. “‘Home Is a Place Where You Have Never Been’: The Exile Motif in the Hainish Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin.” The Literature of Emigration and Exile. Eds. James Whitlark and Wendell Aycock. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1992. 105-13.
Dong, Ye. “Androgyny in The Left Hand of Darkness.” Foreign Literature Studies 31.2 (2009): 30-35. [SSFRD]
Dunn, Thomas. “Creation Unfinished: Astronomical Realities in the Hainish Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin.” Patterns of the Fantastic II. Ed. Donald M. Hassler. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1985. 59-67. [SSFRD]
Elkins, Charles and Robert Galbreath. “On Galbreath’s Rhetorics of the Occult.” Science Fiction Studies 7.2 (1980): 236-39. [DePauw] [JSTOR]
Erlich, Richard D and Farah Mendlesohn. “Approaching the Left Hand of Darkness: A Conversation.” [SSFRD]
Fayad, Mona. “Aliens, Androgynes and Anthropology: Le Guin’s Critique of Representation in The Left Hand of Darkness.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 30.3 (1997): 59-73. [SSFRD]
Fitting, Peter. “The Modern Anglo-American SF Novel: Utopian Longing and Capitalist Cooptation.” Science Fiction Studies 6.1 (1979): 59-76. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [LHD addressed on p. 70-1]
—. “‘So We All Became Mothers’: New Roles for Men in Recent Utopian Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 12.2 (1985): 156-83. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [LHD referenced on pp. 166-7, 172, 180 (footnote 19)]
Fredericks, S. C. “David Ketterer on SF as Apocalyptic Literature.” Science Fiction Studies 1.3 (1974): 217-19. [Review of Ketterer’s New Worlds, including a paragraph on LHD.] [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Galbreath, Robert. “Holism, Openness, and the Other: Le Guin’s Use of the Occult.” Science Fiction Studies 7.1 (1980): 36-48. [DePauw] [JSTOR]
Gant-Britton, Lisbeth. “Exploring Color Coding at the Beginning and End of the Twentieth Century in Usula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic. Ed. Elisabeth Anne Leonard. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Gerstenberger, Donna. “Conceptions Literary and Otherwise: Women Writers and the Modern Imagination.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 9.2 (1976): 141-50. [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Getz, John. “A Peace-Studies Approach to The Left Hand of Darkness.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 21.2-3 (1988): 203-14.
Gordon, Joan. “Dancing Gracefully but Cautiously: Ursula Le Guin’s Criticism.” Science Fiction Studies 17.1 (1990): 117-19. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [Review of Dancing at the Edge of the World] [Refers to LHD on p. 118]
Hayles, N. B. “Androgyny, Ambivalence and Assimilation in The Left Hand of Darkness.” Ursula K. Le Guin. Eds. Joseph Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg. Polly Harris, 1979. 97-115. [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Heginbotham, Eleanor. “Worlds Elsewhere: NEH Summers and Long Distance Runners.” The English Journal 85.5 (1996): 48-50. [JSTOR]
Holland, Norman N. “You, U.K. Le Guin.” Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Marleen S. Barr. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1981. 125-37. [ISFDB]
Hui-chuan, Chang. “Utopia as Subversive: Androgyny and The Left Hand of Darkness.” Studies in Language and Literature 5 (1992): 43–58.
Huntington, John. “Public and Private Imperatives in Le Guin’s Novels.” Science Fiction Studies 2.3 (1975): 237-243. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB]
Jameson, Fredric. “World-Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative.” Science Fiction Studies 2.3 (1975): 221-30. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB] [Collected in Bloom]
Jose, Jim. “Reflections on the Politics of Le Guin’s Narrative Shifts.” Science Fiction Studies 54 (1991): 180–97. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Ketterer, David. “The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Archetypal ‘Winter-Journey.’” New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction and American Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974. [SSFRD] [Collected in Bloom]
Ketterer, David, et al. “On David Ketterer’s New Worlds for Old.” Science Fiction Studies 2.2 (1975): 137-146. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Keulen, Margerete. Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy and Sally Miller Gearheart. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991.
Klein, Gérard. “On Ursula Le Guin.” Science Fiction Studies 6.1 (1979): 117. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [Notice that LHD was published in French]
Klein, Gérard and Richard Astle. “Le Guin’s ‘Aberrant” Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent.” Science Fiction Studies 4.3 (1977): 287-95. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Landon, Brooks. “The Insistent Vision of Ursula K. Le Guin.” Science Fiction After 1900. New York: Twayne, 1997. 132-35.
Lake, David J. “Le Guin’s Twofold Vision: Contrary Image-Sets in ‘The Left Hand of Darkness.'” Science Fiction Studies, 8.2 (1981): 156-164. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Lamb, Patricia Frazer and Diana L. Vieth. “Again, The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny or Homophobia?” Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. Ed. Donald Palumbo. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 221-31. [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Larbalestier, Justine. “Hermaphroditism.” The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. 91-103. [GBooks]
Latham, Rob. “Bisexuality in New Wave SF.” Science Fiction Studies 36.3 (2009): 555-62. [LHD referenced on p. 556 [DePauw] [JSTOR]
Lefanu, Sarah. “Ursula K. Le Guin.” Feminism and Science Fiction. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1989. 130-46. [SSFRD]
Le Guin, Ursula K. “American SF and The Other.” Science Fiction Studies 2.3 (1975): 208-10. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB] [No direct reference to LHD, but alienation and otherness are strong themes in the story] [Collected in Le Guin, The Language of the Night]
—. “Is Gender Necessary?” The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood. New York: Putnam, 1979. 161-69. [OL]
—. “Is Gender Necessary? Redux.” Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. New York: Grove Press, 1989. 7-16. [GBooks]
—. “On The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.” The Best of the Nebulas. Ed. Ben Bova. New York: Tor, 1989. [ISFDB]
—. “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown.” The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood. New York: Putnam, 1979. 101-19. [OL] [GBooks] [ISFDB]
Lemieux, Jacques and Ronald Rosenthall. “Utopias and Social Relations in American Science Fiction, 1950-80.” Science Fiction Studies 12.2 (1985): 148-55. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD] [LHD mentioned on p. 153]
Livia, Anna. “She Sired Six Children.” Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse. Eds. Bucholtz, Mary, A.C. Long and Laurel A. Sulton. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. 332-47.
Mandell, Stephen. “An Alien Encounter: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.” Connecticut Quarterly: CQ. 1.2 (1999): 40-49. [SSFRD]
McGuirk, Carol. “Optimism and the Limits of Subversion in The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness.” Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chealsea House 1986. 243-58. [SSFRD]
Melzer, Patricia. “Beyond Binary Gender.” Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
Merrick, Helen. “Gender in Science Fiction.” Eds. Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. 241-53. [OL] [SSFRD]
Morgan, Ellen. “The Feminist Novel of Androgynous Fantasy.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 2.3 (1977): 40-49. [JSTOR]
Murphy, Patrick D. “The Left Hand of Fabulation: The Poetry of Ursula K. Le Guin.” The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre. Eds. Patrick D. Murphy and Vernon Ross Hyles. Westport: Greenwood, 1989. 123–36. [SSFRD]
Myers, Victoria. “Conversational Technique in Ursula Le Guin: A Speech-Act Analysis.” Science Fiction Studies 10.3 (1983): 306-316. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD] [Collected in Bloom]
Nicol, Charles. “The Good Witch of the West Gets Processed.” Science Fiction Studies 29.1 (2002): 127-8. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [Review of Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin by Warren G. Rochelle]
Nudelman, Rafail and Alan G. Myers. “An Approach to the Structure of Le Guin’s SF.” Science Fiction Studies 2.3 (1975): 210-20. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB]
Parrinder, Patrick. “The Alien Encounter: Or, Ms Brown and Mrs Le Guin.” Science Fiction Studies 6.1 (1979): 46-58. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Pearson, Wendy Gay. “Postcolonialism/s, Gender/s, Sexuality/ies and the Legacy of ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’: Gwyneth Jones’s Aleutians Talk Back.” The Yearbook of English Studies 37.2 (2007): 182-196. [JSTOR] [FreeLib] [SSFRD]
—. “Sex/uality and the Figure of the Hermaphrodite in Science Fiction; or, the Revenge of Herculine Barbin.” Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 108–23.
Peel, Ellen. “Black and White and Read All Over: The Semiotics of Difference and Chiaroscuro in Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness.” Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity. Eds. Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. 453-56. [GBooks] [SSFRD]
—. Politics, Persuasion and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2002. 109-149.
—. “Reading piebald patterns in Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.” Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism. Eds. Helen Merrick and Tess Williams. Nedlands, AU: University of Western Australia Press, 1999. 31-40. [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Pegg, Barry. “Down to Earth: Terrain, Territory, and the Language of Realism in Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.” Michigan Academician 27 (1995): 481-92. [SSFRD]
Pennington, John. “Exorcising Gender: Resisting Readers in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 41 (2000): 351-58.
Pita, Mirianne. “Gender Bending: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969).” Women In Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender. Eds. Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen Silber. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003. 166-68. [SSFRD]
Plank, Robert. “Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love.” Science Fiction Studies 3.1 (1976): 36-43. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Porter, David L. “The Politics of Le Guin’s Opus.” Science Fiction Studies 3.2 (1975): 243-8. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB]
Rabkin, Eric S. “Determinism, Free Will, and Point of View in Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 20 (1979): 5-19. [SSFRD] [Collected in Bloom]
Rass, Rebecca. Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness: A Critical Commentary. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Rhodes, Jewell Parker. “The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny and the Feminist Utopia.” Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations. Eds. Marleen Barr and Nicholas D. Smith. Lanham, MD: UP of America , 1983. 108-20.
Roberts, Adam. “Case study: Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness.” Science Fiction. London: Routledge, 2000. 84-93.
Rudy, Kathy. “Ethics, Reproduction, Utopia: Gender and Childbearing in ‘Woman on the Edge of Time’ and ‘The Left Hand of Darkness.'” NWSA Journal 9.1 (1997): 22-38. [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Russ, Joanna. “The Image of Women in Science Fiction.” Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives. Ed. Susan Koppelman Cormillon. 71-94. [LHD addressed on pp. 89-94] [OL] [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Spector, Judith. “Functions of Sexuality in Russ, Piercy and Le Guin.” Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. Ed. Donald Palumbo. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 197-207. [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Spivack, Charlotte. Ursula K. Le Guin. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984.
Stone-Blackburn, Susan. “Adult Telepathy: Babel 17 and The Left Hand of Darkness.” Extrapolation 30.3 (1989): 243-53. [SSFRD]
Stover, Leon E. “Anthropology and Science Fiction.” Current Anthropology 14.4 (1973): 471-74. [JSTOR] [LHD referenced on p. 472.]
Suvin, Darko. “Parables of De-Alienation: Le Guin’s Widdershins Dance.” Science Fiction Studies 2.3 (1975): 265-74. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB] [SSFRD]
Theall, Donald F. “The Art of Social-Science Fiction: The Ambiguous Utopian Dialects of Ursula K. Le Guin.” Science Fiction Studies 2.3 (1975): 256-264. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB] [SSFRD] [Collected in Bloom]
Vinge, Joan D. “Introduction to ‘The Left Hand of Darkness.'” The New York Review of Science Fiction 43 (1992): 14-16. [ISFDB] [Included as Preface to 1993 Easton Press ed. of LHD]
Walker, Jeanne Murray. “Myth, Exchange and history in The Left Hand of Darkness.” Science Fiction Studies 6.2 (1979): 180-89. [DePauw] [JSTOR] [SSFRD]
Watson, Ian. “Le Guin’s Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator.” Science Fiction Studies 2.1 (1975): 67-75. [Offers a suggested internal chronology of the Hainish cycle as a whole.] [DePauw] [JSTOR] [ISFDB]
Williams, Lynn F. “Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else: Marriage and the Family in Recent American Utopias 1965-1985.” Utopian Studies 1 (1987): 123-36. [SSFRD] [LHD referenced on p. 126, footnote 4.]
Willis, Gary. “Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness: The Weaving Together of Dualities.” Riverside Quarterly 8.1 (1986): 36-43.
Zigo, Diane and Michael T. Moore. “Science Fiction: Serious Reading, Critical Reading.” The English Journal 94.2 (2004): 85-90. [JSTOR] [SSFRD] [LHD listed in “SF ‘Starter Kit’ for Readers New to the Field” (p. 89).]
Blog Posts/Online Articles
Beecraft, Alex. “Holding The Left Hand of Darkness.” LGBT Fantasy Fans and Writers. 5 Aug. 2012.
Berlatsky, Noah. “World Without Imperialism.” The Hooded Utilitarian. 28 Feb. 2013.
Brenda. “Constructing gender with pronouns.” Spiphanies: Quotations, notes and ramblings on life, literature and language. 1 March 2011.
Chopra, Samir. “Ursula Le Guin and Philosophy of Feminism Reading Lists.” 30 June 2012.
Tillack, Tim. “Essay: The critical reception of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Left Hand of Darkness.'” The Knowledge Eater. 2 October 2011.
Johnson, Tait McKenzie. “The Anthropological Perspective in LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.” The Absent Narrative. 22 Feb. 2009.
Jordison, Sam. “Back to the Hugos: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin.” The Guardian Books Blog. 25 March, 2010.
June, Laura. “The Classics: ‘The Left Hand of Darkness.'” The Verge. 11 Aug. 2012.
LeFanu, Sarah. “The King is Pregnant.” The Guardian. 2 Jan. 2004.
Mishan, Ligaya. “First Contact: A Talk with Ursula K. Le Guin.” The New Yorker. 24 July 2009.
Piñeros, Benjamin. “Bookworms: The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) Ursula K. Le Guin.” NerdSpan. 28 Jan. 2013.
Swanwick, Michael. “Is The Left Hand of Darkness sexist?” Flogging Babel. 27 March 2013.
—. “Judith Moffett on The Left Hand of Darkness.” 1 April 2013.
Walton, Jo. “Gender and glaciers: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.” Tor.com. 8 June 2009.
—. “Hugo Nominees: 1970.” Tor.com. 13 Feb. 2011.
—. “Some Thoughts on Anthropological Science Fiction as a Sub-Genre.” Tor.com. 23 Aug. 2012.
—. “Three short Hainish novels: Ursula Le Guin’s Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions.” Tor.com. 30 March 2010.
Wimmer, Josh. “The truth is self-evident: Ursula Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness isn’t about gender.” io9. 5 June 2010.
Abbreviations Used
DePauw = DePauw University archive of Science Fiction Studies. Links go to full text, where available, otherwise to abstract.
FreeLib = The Free Library
GBooks = Google Books (preview)
ISFDB = Internet Science Fiction Database (citation only)
JSTOR = Stable URL for the article/essay at JSTOR.org
LHD = The Left Hand of Darkness
OL = OpenLibrary.org
SSFRD = Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database (citation only)