Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is the author of 17 books, including an expanded hardcover version of her paperback indie bestseller Men Explain Things to Me and a newly released anthology of her essays about places from Detroit to Kyoto to the Arctic, The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness.
May 20, 2014
Introducing the author's own original intentions to discuss a topic relevant to everyone's own life.
Bigger Than That
By Rebecca Solnit
October 7, 2013
What happens when the weather morphs into man-made violence, becomes a terrorist?
Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire
By Rebecca Solnit
June 26, 2013
How Silicon Valley is running the world, and destroying San Francisco.
Rebecca Solnit: A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year
By Rebecca Solnit
January 25, 2013
Violence against women is rampant, systemic, and all about control.
Men Explain Things to Me
By Rebecca Solnit
August 20, 2012
Before there was mansplaining, there was Rebecca Solnit's 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.
Apologies to Mexico
By Rebecca Solnit
July 11, 2012
As narcotraficantes terrorize Mexico with surreal acts of violence, it's time to reconsider our basic assumptions about the U.S. War on Drugs.
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games
By Rebecca Solnit
May 1, 2012
Sending debt oeonage, poverty, and freaky weather into the arena.
David Graeber: Beholden
By Rebecca Solnit
May 1, 2012
Rebecca Solnit and David Graeber on anarchism as a problem-solving tool, the return of debtors' prisons, and why communism is ingrained in capitalism
Mad, Passionate Love—and Violence
By Rebecca Solnit
February 21, 2012
Why the media loves violent acts by protesters, but not that of the banks.
Ms. Civil Society v. Mr. Unaccountable
By Rebecca Solnit
November 22, 2011
How ten years after 9/11 Occupy Wall Street may signify a return to a civil society.
Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
By Rebecca Solnit
October 18, 2011
This land is your (occupied) land.