Dancing at the edge of the world: thoughts on words, women, places

Talks and essays: The space crone

Is gender necessary? Redux

Moral and ethical implications of family planning

It was a dark and stormy night

Working on 'the lathe'

Some thoughts on narrative

World-making

Hunger

Places names

The princess

A non-Euclidean view of California as a cold place to be

Facing it

Reciprocity of prose and poetry

A left-handed commencement address

Along the Platte

Whose lathe?

The woman without answers

The second report of the shipwrecked foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb

Room 9, car 1430

Theodora

Science fiction and the future

The only good author?

Bryn Mawr commencement address

Woman / wilderness

The carrier bag theory of fiction

Heroes

Prospects for women in writing

Text, silence, performance

'Who is responsible?'

Conflict

'Where do you get your ideas from?'

Over the hills and a great way off

The fisherwoman's daughter

Reviews: The dark tower / C. S. Lewis

Close encounters, star wars, and the tertium quid

Shikasta / Doris Lessing

Two from venom: Freddy's book and Vlemk / John Gardner ; The marriage between zones three, four and five / Doris Lessing

Kalila and Dimna / retold by Ramsay Wood

Unfinished business / Maggie Scarf

Italian folktales / Italo Calvino

Peake's progress / Mervyn Peake

The sentimental agents / Doris Lessing

Difficult loves / Italo Calvino

'Forsaking kingdoms': five poets

The mythology of North America / John Bierhorst

Silent partners / Eugene Linden

Outside the gates / Molly Gloss

Golden days / Carolyn See.