3 books
Rebecca Solnit
Solnit built this out of nine essays circling a single idea, which she takes from a line she found in Meno: How do you go looking for something when you don’t know what it is? Four of the nine are…
Rebecca Solnit
A sequel of sorts to Hope in the Dark. Solnit takes the last sixty-odd years — her own lifetime — and lays out how completely underlying beliefs have shifted on race, gender, sexuality, disability, the environment, and what nature even…
Rebecca Solnit
Walking as a subject with a history, which nobody had really tried before. Solnit runs from bipedalism through the peripatetic philosophers, the invention of the country walk as recreation, Wordsworth and the Romantics, pilgrimage, the labyrinth, mountaineering, the flâneur, protest…
