"At the same time that [Solnit] describes her forays into her past, she invites us to connect pieces of her story to our own, as a measure of how far we've come and how far we have left to go." -Jenny Odell, The New York Times Book...

The Faraway Nearby von Solnit, Rebecca

Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world. von Solnit, Rebecca

Wanderlust von Solnit, Rebecca

A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir Recollections of My NonexistenceDrawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of...

In "Orwell's Roses", untersucht die Autorin Rebecca Solnit das Leben des berühmten Schriftstellers George Orwell aus einer ungewöhnlichen Perspektive - seiner Liebe zur Natur und insbesondere zu Rosen. Sie argumentiert, dass diese...

Wie sich die eigene Stimme finden lässt, wenn die Gesellschaft Schweigen befiehltMit diesem Buch steigt Rebecca Solnit endgültig aufs Podest zu Joan Didion und Susan Sontag: Ihre Geschichte ist die Geschichte einer jungen Frau, die ihre...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses."...

Rebecca Solnit's timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism. von Solnit, Rebecca

What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers,...

The Best American Essays 2019 von Solnit, Rebecca

In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment...