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“The smart thing is to prepare for the unexpected” said my most recent fortune-cookie advisory. Many people presume that the future will…
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.
While we were looking at humpbacked whales a few months ago, my companion asked me if I ever thought about how Moby…
[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: May 2003. It was the best of moments for the neocons and the Bush administration, the worst of…
A review of: Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains, Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, Houghton Mifflin, 468pp.,…
The news of Susan Sontag’s death arrived as a single sentence spoken in the opening moments of a radio news program Tuesday…
Most of the acute despair felt in the wake of the U.S. election has faded into general depression or a sense that…
About a month ago I planned to commit civil disobedience in New York — there were some Republicans in town, as you…
In July, the Feds handed down to Nevada its bitterest defeat and sweetest victory in ages; the former, a termination of thousands…
August 15, 2004: Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge announced today that the nation was on lilac alert with a cream overwash after…
The law of unexpected consequences prevails so frequently that perhaps it should not be so unexpected. For example, Laura Bush’s attempt early…