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Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit (born 24 June, 1961) is an American writer, historian, and activist. She is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Whose Story Is This?, Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, 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), and a memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence. She is a product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school.
Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the world’s third-largest company in market value.…
Ten years ago, my part of the world was full of valiant opposition to the new wars being launched far away and…
Here in the United States, where there is a reported rape every 6.2 minutes, and one in five women will be raped…
As this wild year comes to an end, we return to the season of gifts. Here’s the gift you’re not going to…
The first horseman was named al-Qaeda in Manhattan, and it came as a message on September 11, 2001: that our meddling in…
In ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by “the rectification of names,” a ceremony in which the sloppiness…
Dear Allies, Forgive me if I briefly take my eyes off the prize to brush away some flies, but the buzzing has…
Occupy is now a year old. A year is an almost ridiculous measure of time for much of what matters: at one…
Dear Mexico, I apologize. There are so many things I could apologize for, from the way the U.S. biotech corporation Monsanto has contaminated your corn to…