“Avoid Magic”: Le Guin’s Case for “Solitude” in the Era of Romantasy Highlight

Naturally, the emergence of the romantasy genre—so popular, and so girly—has flung yet more fuel on old smoldering fires of resentment and given rise to an attendant cottage industry of social media criticism that generally consists of rehearsing a given book’s plot, pausing occasionally to roll one’s eyes to camera.