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Writers

Rebecca Solnit

History

Unfinished Business

John Muir’s romantic vision obscured Indigenous ownership of the land—but a new generation is pulling away the veil.

Rebecca Solnit Sierra Mar 2021 15min Permalink

Health

"The Impossible Has Already Happened"

What coronavirus can teach us about hope.

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Apr 2020 15min Permalink

Best Article History

Detroit Arcadia

Wanders through the emptied post-American landscape.

Rebecca Solnit Harper's Jun 2007 Permalink

Crime

The Storykiller and His Sentence

On the end of Harvey Weinstein.

Rebecca Solnit Lit Hub Mar 2020 10min Permalink

“Hope Is a​n Embrace of the Unknown”

On living in dark times.

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Jul 2016 15min Permalink

Tech

Google Invades

Boomtown San Francisco, as seen from the Google Bus.

Rebecca Solnit London Review of Books Feb 2013 15min Permalink

History

Whose Story (and Country) Is This?

The myth of “real” America just won’t go away.

Rebecca Solnit Literary Hub Apr 2018 10min Permalink

Politics

Protest and Persist

“The true impact of activism may not be felt for a generation. That alone is reason to fight.”

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Occupied Territory

An essay on power.

Rebecca Solnit Harper's Jul 2017 10min Permalink

Politics

The Loneliness of Donald Trump

“He is, as of this writing, the most mocked man in the world.”

Rebecca Solnit Literary Hub May 2017 10min Permalink

Travel

Letter from a Drowned Canyon

On water in the West, climate change, and how the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

Rebecca Solnit California Sunday Apr 2017 20min Permalink

Crime

Death By Gentrification: The Killing That Shamed San Francisco

Alex Nieto died because a series of white men saw him as a menacing intruder in the place he’d spent his whole life.

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Mar 2016 20min Permalink

Arts

Men Explain Lolita to Me

“You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us.”

Rebecca Solnit Literary Hub Dec 2015 10min Permalink

Health

Medical Mountaineers

What it takes to deliver basic medical care to the most remote corners of the Himalayas.

Rebecca Solnit New Yorker Dec 2015 25min Permalink

The Mother of All Questions

On the stories we tell ourselves about happiness and the indecent questions we ask women who decided not to become moms.

Rebecca Solnit Harper's Nov 2015 10min Permalink

Listen Up

The pandemic of violence against women, the threats online, and the harassment on the streets are ongoing. But women’s voices assumed an unprecedented power in 2014.

Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Dec 2014 20min Permalink

Science

The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises

What to do about climate change.

Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch Sep 2014 15min Permalink

Check Out the Parking Lot: Hell in LA

Parking garages, prisons, freeways and the world of stuff we’re not supposed to look at.

Rebecca Solnit London Review of Books Jul 2004 15min Permalink

Reprints Arts

Mysteries of Thoreau, Unsolved

On dirty laundry and the meaning of freedom.

Rebecca Solnit Orion May 2013 Permalink

The Archipelago of Arrogance

A meditation on the “out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant.”

Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch Apr 2008 10min Permalink