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Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books.
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, “with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later.” To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that “to acknowledge this state of war is to admit the need for peace,” countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.
The loneliness of Donald Trump
Coda (July 16, 2018)
Milestones in misogyny
Twenty million missing storytellers
Ideology of isolation
Naïve cynicism
Facing the furies
Preaching to the choir
Climate change is violence
Blood on the foundation
Death by gentrification: the killing of Alex Nieto and the savaging of San Francisco
No way in, no way out
Bird in a cage: visiting Jarvis Masters on death row
Coda: case dismissed
The monument wars
Eight million ways to belong
The light from Standing Rock
Break the story
Hope in grief
In praise of indirect consequences
Endorsements
Called “the voice of the resistance” — The New York Times.
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