Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change.
Changing the world means changing the story, the names, and the language in which we describe it. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.
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“Rebecca Solnit is a treasure.”—Marketplace“Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.”—ELLE“Rebecca Solnit is the voice of the resistance.”—New York Times Magazine"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."—Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org“Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.”—The New Republic
Other books by Rebecca Solnit
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Not Too Late
Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua -
Waking Beauty
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City of Women London Tube Wall Map (A2, 16.5 x 23.4 Inches)
by Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Solnit, et al. -
City of Women New York City Subway Wall Map (20 x 20 Inches)
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City of Women New York City Subway Wall Map (20 x 20 Inches) (10-pack)
Other books of interest
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
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The End of Imagination
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How We Get Free
Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -
Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People
by Danny Katch -
No Is Not Enough
by Naomi Klein