JOURNEYS SPECIAL: INDIE MEMPHIS
“It doesn’t have to be the way it is,” Ursula Le Guin wrote in ‘No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters’, the last of her books published during her lifetime. “That is what fantasy says. It doesn’t say, ‘Anything goes’ – that’s irresponsibility… And it doesn’t say, ‘It ought to be this way’ – that’s utopianism, a different enterprise.” Even films concerned with realism have largely operated within this meta-logic of
