Le Guin was not targeting the symposium at large but two participants in particular: Delany and the science-fiction author Joanna Russ. When Le Guin asked, elsewhere in her statement, if the idea ...

The science fiction of Joanna Russ. In her science fiction, the novelist offered not only an astringent critiques of the present but also bold visions of the future. “From now on, I will not ...

Now a new collection of her most significant works, JOANNA RUSS: Novels & Stories (Library of America, 711 pp., $37.50), offers a valuable introduction to a pioneer who defied categories.

Joanna Russ, whose science fiction innovations are honored by a new collection in the Library of America series, saw literature as a quest to rescue her Ashkenazi Jewish mother.

So, too, is the work of Joanna Russ, whose novel The Female Man is still in print nearly 50 years after its publication and, alongside The Left Hand of Darkness, is considered a foundational text ...

For most of the early 1960s, Russ worked as a professor. Her mind stuffed full of ideas about science, literature, and gender, she began writing what became her most celebrated novel in the mid-1960s.

With the ’60s came the likes of Kate Wilhelm, Ursula K. Le Guin, Suzette Hayden Elgin and Vonda McIntyre, but a less familiar name should also be included in this group: Joanna Russ, the subject ...

Joanna Russ was a pioneering feminist, both as a novelist and an academic. Along with Ursula K LeGuin she was at the forefront of a generation of women writers who dragged science fiction away ...

Joanna Russ would probably have something to say about that phrase. How to Suppress Women's Writing — published in 1983, just reprinted — is startlingly slim for the amount of work it does, ...

I worried, before reading You Know You Want This, that the popularity of "Cat Person" might inhibit Roupenian's confidence.It would be understandable if Roupenian, fearing what Joanna Russ calls ...