Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's.
"A searing and super smart call-to-arms that takes on a range of
social and political problems in America--from racism and misogyny
to climate change and Donald Trump--Call Them by Their True Names
features Solnit's signature wit, humor, honesty, and incisive
commentary, and beneath it all, a focus on progress and hope."
--Poets & Writers "Solnit [is] a powerful cultural critic: as
always, she opts for measured assessment and pragmatism over hype
and hysteria."
--Publishers Weekly
"Solnit is careful with her words (she always is) but never so much
that she mutes the infuriated spirit that drives these essays."
--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "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
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