Rebecca Solnit

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

Solnit built this out of nine essays circling a single idea, which she takes from a line she found in Plato’s Meno dialogue: How do you go looking for something when you don’t know what it is? Four of the…

The Beginning Comes After the End

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…

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Rebecca Solnit

This is walking as a subject with a history. 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 marches and the Suffragettes,…