This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin By definition, utopia cannot exist. In 1516, educated readers of Thomas More’s Utopia would have appreciated a tension between two possible derivations of this novel word: the Greek “eu-topo...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/16/the-uses-of-utopia-by-joad-raymond-wren-review-can-the-ideal-society-ever-exist)