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5 days ago | 
altaonline.com | Rebecca Solnit
Is it possible to make peace with uncertainty? Rebecca Solnit hopes so, and she’s pleading with us to embrace it. In her latest bouquet of essays from Haymarket Books, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain, the author elegantly argues that human yearning for assurance is what gets in the way of true progress. Belief in absolutes—whether those absolutes be optimism or an assurance that we’re doomed—is an obstacle to humanistic growth and community.
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1 week ago | 
lithub.com | Rebecca Solnit
In A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the book-length meditation on loss and getting lost I published twenty years ago, I describe the film I made at age twenty in an abandoned hospital with the young man I got to know through that project and then spent the rest of my twenties with; this is the lone surviving prop from the film, inscribed with a line from Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The lost glove is happy. Article continues after advertisementThe first time I got drunk was on Elijah’s wine.
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1 week ago | 
elpais.com | Rebecca Solnit
Tener un hijo es caro. Cometer un delito también es caro, ya sea porque pierdes oportunidades de percibir ingresos para evitar que te detengan, porque te gastas el dinero en abogados que te defiendan si te han pillado o porque vas a la cárcel, lo pierdes todo y al salir te es imposible encontrar trabajo por tener antecedentes.
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1 week ago | 
elpais.diariosergipano.net | Rebecca Solnit
Tener un hijo es caro. Cometer un delito también es caro, ya sea porque pierdes oportunidades de percibir ingresos para evitar que te detengan, porque te gastas el dinero en abogados que te defiendan si te han pillado o porque vas a la cárcel, lo pierdes todo y al salir te es imposible encontrar trabajo por tener antecedentes.
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1 week ago | 
lithub.com | Rebecca Solnit
One of the great joyful mysteries of writing comes when work whose creation arose from the writer’s innermost desires somehow meets those of its readers. I let this book loose in the world with no assumptions about if and how it would be received, after writing it in a state of profound uncertainty about what I was doing. Article continues after advertisementThe process of writing this one was inseparable from its overarching theme.
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3 weeks ago | 
inkl.com | Rebecca Solnit
Always with a glass-half-full view of the world, Rebecca Solnit is soon appearing at this year’s Hay Festival - (Trent Davis Bailey)“You become prolific by being the sort of nerdy person who stays home alone more than most people could stand, so just keep that in mind,” Rebecca Solnit says kindly when I say that prepping for a conversation with her is an intimidating task.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Rebecca Solnit
On 5 April, millions of people rallied against the Trump administration and its campaigns of destruction. In small towns and big cities from Alaska to Florida, red counties and blue (and a handful of European cities), they gathered with homemade signs full of fury and heartbreak and sarcasm.
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2 months ago | 
razorcake.org | Alison Braun |Bob Rob Medina |Rebecca Solnit
Mar 27, 2025Alison Braun’s first book covered punk artists from the ’80s and early ’90s, while her second volume, Shot in the Dark, focuses on the metal and thrash scenes of the same era. This hardcover book features a diverse array of artists. Some are well-known, including Slayer, Metallica, Motörhead, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Others may be lesser-known to those outside the metal genre, such as Corrosion Of Conformity, Kreator, Exodus, and Testament.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
meditationsinanemergency.com | Rebecca Solnit
— 9 min read The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of the prerogatives of power is to be in charge of blame, and abusers routinely exercise that power to make their own acts someone else's fault.
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Feb 16, 2025 | 
meditationsinanemergency.com | Rebecca Solnit
I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're hacking away at the US government and international alliances and good relationships with everything and everyone from the European Union to Canada and Mexico to a whole lot of the American people. They think they can go it alone.
