New Releases by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.

''An old world is dying; a new world is being born; now is the time of monsters'' Antonio Gramschi Solnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we''ve experienced over the last fifty years, which has profoundly changed our world. In recognising the interdependent and symbiotic relationships in nature and among humans, this revolution is beginning to overturn capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the human domination of nature - despite the best efforts of the old world to fight back. From one of the most significant thinkers of our day, The Beginning Comes After the End is a culmination of years of activism and offers a unique perspective on our politics and our humanity, to give hope in difficult times and to urgently remind us that the power to change the world is within our reach.

Rebecca Solnit non si stanca di demolire i pilastri del patriarcato. Lo fa con precisione, lucidità, ironia e molta intelligenza, oltre che con l’eleganza che contraddistingue la sua prosa. Se in Gli uomini mi spiegano le cose aveva messo in luce la prepotente arroganza con cui gli uomini pensano di poter mettere a tacere le donne sul piano della competenza, della cultura, della conoscenza, qui Solnit affronta tra gli altri temi quello della condanna delle donne a essere per prima cosa ‘fattrici’, unico modo in cui possano veramente realizzarsi. E dunque le donne si trovano spesso a dover rispondere alla domanda: perché non hai fatto figli? Come se fare figli fosse l’unica possibilità di realizzare un’esistenza e la felicità. Le donne, che vengono messe a tacere in mille modi, che hanno bisogno di narrazioni che non stigmatizzino la loro vita, non sono tenute a rispondere. Questa e altre resistenze compongono la mappa di questo libro che raccoglie – da social media, letteratura, cronaca e cultura popolare – storie di umiliazioni femminili e di aggressioni maschili perché raccontare le storie delle donne al mondo cambierà il modo in cui il mondo tratta le donne. The New Yorker

New York Times Bestseller In the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world. “I''ve tried to find other ways of seeing and to prize the migratory routes ideas take,” Solnit writes in the introduction, “the way that hope is most often grounded in memory, because you can''t see the future but you can understand the patterns and possibilities if you know the past.”

Was die Zukunft bringt, können wir nicht sagen – stets liegt das, was vor uns liegt, im Ungewissen, also in der Dunkelheit, weil Zukunft immer schon das war, was wir daraus gemacht haben. Dieses Machen, das Tun, das Engagement und der kleine und große Aktivismus stehen im Zentrum dieses Essays, den Rebecca Solnit bereits vor fast zwanzig Jahren geschrieben hat – und der damit einem spezifischen historischen Moment entspringt, in dem vieles möglich schien. Dass sich nicht alles davon eingelöst hat, ist dabei kein Zeichen des Scheiterns oder Versagens. Denn wenn uns die Geschichte etwas lehrt, argumentiert Solnit, dann dass bisher noch jede Form des kollektiven Engagements Früchte getragen hat – wenn vielleicht auch andere als die ursprünglich angestrebten. Es ist ihr prozessualer, schöpferischer und kreativer Politikbegriff, der Rebecca Solnits Essay gerade angesichts verhärteter Fronten wieder so ermutigend macht: weil es angesichts der komplexen Gegenwart mehr als einen Weg gibt, um durch unser Engagement die Zukunft zu gestalten.

Publié en Amérique en 2018, Appelons un chat un chat dissèque les crises américaines pendant la campagne et le mandat de Donald Trump. Solnit y dépeint un pays fracturé, en proie plus que jamais aux discriminations raciales, sexistes et sociales. Dans la langue incisive qu’on lui connaît, elle aborde également des sujets comme le changement climatique, l’instrumentalisation de la violence, la montée du nationalisme... Si l’Amérique est son terrain de prédilection, elle montre que ses analyses valent pour l’ensemble de nos sociétés contemporaines. Elle invite non au pessimisme mais à l’action citoyenne collective, à un espoir éclairé et éclairant. Avant d’agir, il faut nommer les oppressions et les obstacles avec précision. Appelons un chat un chat pour changer, peut-être, le monde. Née en 1961, Rebecca Solnit est une des intellectuelles contemporaines les plus influentes et singulières de notre époque. Avec le célèbre Ses hommes qui m’expliquent la vie (L’Olivier, 2018) elle a théorisé la notion de mansplaining devenue incontournable. Mettre les mots sur ce qui abîme notre monde, telle est sa mission de livre en livre.

A fresh, feminist adaptation of a classic fairy tale from award-winning author Rebecca Solnit.

La figura di scrittore di George Orwell è inestricabilmente legata alla sua denuncia dei totalitarismi, quelli descritti in 1984 e nella Fattoria degli animali. Sarebbe molto semplice dimostrare quanto siano attuali quelle descrizioni, in particolare se si pensa all'erosione progressiva della vita privata e ai sistemi sempre più avanzati di controllo sociale, per concludere che Orwell aveva ragione. E invece la strada che Rebecca Solnit sceglie per dimostrare l'attualità del suo pensiero è quella che affonda nelle sue profondità, svelandoci un Orwell intimo, che coltivava rose, riconosceva il canto degli uccelli, e che aveva deciso di vivere su un'isola per poter realizzare il desiderio di possedere e lavorare in una fattoria. A partire da quelle rose, che fanno da filo conduttore all'intera trattazione, Solnit ricostruisce la biografia di Orwell gettando luce sull'importanza della bellezza, della speranza e della gioia nella sua vita e anche nella sua opera, chiamando in causa altre figure per diversi motivi emblematiche, da Tina Modotti a Stalin, dal fondatore della banca delle sementi sovietica alle lavoratrici delle serre colombiane, dove le rose vengono coltivate in una mostruosa catena di montaggio. Alla fine rileggeremo alcuni passi di 1984 scoprendo quanta bellezza contengano, la bellezza che Orwell indicava quando scriveva: «Finché sarò vivo e in buona salute continuerò ad appassionarmi alla prosa, ad amare la superficie della terra e a prender piacere dagli oggetti solidi e da ritagli di informazioni inutili. Non c’è modo di sopprimere questa parte di me».

«Ich liebe dieses Buch, und viele andere werden das auch tun. Ein berauschender Streifzug durch Orwells Leben und seine Zeit – und durch das Leben und die Zeit der Rosen.» Margaret Atwood «Ein Buch über Abgründe und Erdbeeren – ein Buch über das Pflanzen von Rosen trotz des Zustands der Welt.» Der Spiegel «Neben meiner Arbeit interessiert mich am meisten das Gärtnern», schrieb George Orwell 1940. Mit Erstaunen erkennt Rebecca Solnit nach einem Besuch im Garten von Orwell, wo seine Rosen noch heute blühen, dass es die Natur war, die Orwell Kraft gab, unermüdlich anzuschreiben gegen Faschismus und Totalitarismus. Die Verquickungen von Macht und Schönheit führen Rebecca Solnit aus Orwells Garten zu den drängenden Fragen unserer Gegenwart, die sie bereits in den dreißiger Jahren angelegt sieht. Sie findet koloniale Hinterlassenschaften in Blumengärten, erkennt in Stalin mit seiner Besessenheit, Zitronen am Polarkreis züchten zu wollen, einen Vorläufer der «Klimaskeptiker» und sieht in der Rosenindustrie ein Paradebeispiel globalisierter Ausbeutung. Rebecca Solnit macht sich unerschrocken auf in neue Gefilde – ihre Lektüre sensibilisiert für unsere Welt, spendet Trost und stellt sich, trotz allem unerschütterlich optimistisch, den Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. «Orwells Rosen» ist eine bemerkenswerte Reflexion über Lebenslust und Schönheit als Widerstandsakt.

Découverte en France grâce à Ces hommes qui m'expliquent la vie, Rebecca Solnit, essayiste féministe de renommée internationale, a longtemps connu l'adversité avant de pouvoir faire entendre sa voix. Souvenirs de mon inexistence revient sur son parcours personnel depuis son installation à San Francisco à l'âge de 19 ans jusqu'à l'émergence de l'écrivaine reconnue qu'elle est devenue. A travers ce récit autobiographique, elle explore les différentes facettes de ce qu'elle appelle l'« inexistence » imposée aux femmes par les hommes et plus généralement aux minorités par la société. Puiser dans son vécu lui permet d'étayer une réflexion sur l'identité, sur son rapport à la lecture et à l'écriture tout en donnant quelques pistes pour concevoir un monde meilleur : chaque individualité, si opprimée et niée soit-elle, a la capacité de lutter contre la violence systémique dès lors qu'elle comprend qu'elle n'est pas seule. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Céline Leroy

Nadie podría darte una mejor versión de Cenicienta para contar a tus hijos que Solnit, la gran pensadora feminista, autora de Los hombres me explican cosas. «Me habría encantado leerlo de pequeño. [...] Un libro poderoso, no solo para niños, que nos recuerda que la honestidad, la amabilidad y la empatía son las que nos permiten descubrir y conectar con nuestro verdadero yo, sin coronas elegantes, personas perfectas ni un “fueron felices y comieron perdices”.» -Elliot Page En esta vuelta de tuerca del cuento tradicional, la ingeniosa Cenicienta conoce a su hada madrina, acude a un baile y se relaciona con un príncipe, pero ahí termina la historia que ya conocemos: en realidad, los zapatos de cristal no resultan demasiado cómodos, la belleza no da la felicidad y la protagonista se harta de que la traten mal. Rebecca Solnit revisita este clásico con una descarada heroína que nos inspira a repensar el papel de la mujer en el mundo. Porque no podemos seguir contando esta historia como si la sociedad no hubiese cambiado, como si no faltase todavía tanto por cambiar, y porque, en el fondo, Cenicienta no es un relato sobre conseguir una vida de riqueza junto al príncipe: es una fábula sobre la transformación y lo que significa ser libre. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION No one could have written a better version of Cinderella to read to your children than Solnit, the great feminist thinker, author of Men Explain Things to Me. "Cinderella Liberator is something I desperately wish I had read when I was a child. […] This is a powerful book, not only for children, but also a beautiful reminder for us all that honesty, kindness, and empathy are what will lead us to discover and connect to our true selves, not a fancy crown, not a ‘perfect’ person, and not a 'happily ever after.’”—Elliot Page In this modern twist on the classic story, Cinderella meets her fairy godmother, goes to a ball, and makes friends with a prince. But that is where the familiar story ends. In all reality, glass slippers are not very comfortable, beauty does not guarantee happiness, and the protagonist gets fed up with being treated badly. Instead of waiting to be rescued, Cinderella learns that she can save herself and those around her by being true to herself and standing up for what she believes. Rebecca Solnit reimagines this classic fairy tale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twist that will inspire young readers to rethinking the role of women and change the world. Because we cannot continue to tell this story as if society had not changed drastically, as if there still wasn’t so much to change, and because, deep down, Cinderella is not a story about achieving a life of wealth with a prince: it is a fable about transformation and what it means to be free.

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.” —Margaret Atwood “A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire Messud, Harper''s “Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.” —Vogue A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world “In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So be-gins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell‘s own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnit’s portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.

El acto de perderse tiene muchas dimensiones: si es posible perderse en un territorio, también lo es extraviarse mentalmente, perder el rumbo en sentido figurado y literal, desorientarse y desaparecer. Pero la pérdida puede llevarnos a un hallazgo, y es esta sutil transacción la que Rebecca Solnit explora con inteligencia y sensibilidad en estos ensayos. Desde las expediciones extraviadas en el continente americano hasta la pérdida de la memoria familiar, la representación de lo perdido en la distancia y en el tiempo y la extinción de especies naturales, este libro nos embarca en una travesía afectiva e intelectual por las muchas formas de la perdición y, sin brújula aparente, encuentra a cada paso imágenes y observaciones perdurables. Publicada en inglés en 2005, Una guía sobre el arte de perderse es una de las obras fundamentales de Rebecca Solnit, y se publica por primera vez en español en esta edición.

«Tutti noi abbiamo diverse ‘madri’ – intellettuali, ispiratrici, politiche – Rebecca Solnit è una delle mie» Emma Watson «Rebecca Solnit è la voce della resistenza» New York Times Magazine «Scegliere di essere una principessa va assolutamente bene. È quando non si può scegliere che non va bene. Questa Cenerentola è libera di scegliere di esprimere i propri desideri e darsi da fare per realizzarli. Questo è il dono di Rebecca Solnit ai bambini e ai ragazzi di oggi» School Library Journal UNA DELLE FIABE PIÙ AMATE DI SEMPRE RISCRITTA DALLA PALADINA DEL FEMMINISMO CONTEMPORANEO C’era una volta una bambina di nome Cenerentola, costretta a servire una crudele matrigna e due indifferenti sorellastre. Finché un bel giorno incontra la sua fata madrina, va a un ballo e conosce il principe. È la fiaba che tutti conosciamo, ma è solo l’inizio di questa storia. Qui Cenerentola vuole farsi degli amici, imparare a non rinnegare il suo passato, a migliorare il presente e a realizzare i suoi sogni senza aver timore di chiedere aiuto agli altri. In sella al suo cavallo pomellato e con una fetta di torta sempre pronta da offrire, insegna a tutti la libertà di scegliere. Un classico con finale a sorpresa in cui tutti hanno diritto a una seconda possibilità.

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women''s rights. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.

What happens to society when we are not held back by the neoliberal narrative?

Los hombres me explican cosas, de Rebecca Solnit, es una de las obras que más han conmovido en los últimos años el debate internacional sobre la violencia contra las mujeres. Compilado y publicado en inglés por primera vez en 2014, el volumen reúne ensayos sobre las formas de silenciamiento del género femenino, desde el mansplaining hasta la pandemia de femicidios que afecta tanto a Oriente como a Occidente, y que Solnit aborda como demostraciones de distinto grado de una misma enfermedad cultural que se expresa a través del odio a las mujeres. Anterior a movimientos como Ni una menos y #MeToo, Los hombres me explican cosas es un libro pionero que pone en perspectiva histórica y mundial, entre otras cuestiones, el problema de la credibilidad de las víctimas de violaciones, las luchas por los derechos de las mujeres y los movimientos de concientización y denuncia de los abusos que afectan en todo el mundo a la población femenina, y con ella a la sociedad humana en su conjunto. Un libro urgente y necesario, Los hombres me explican cosas es a su vez una introducción a la obra sustanciosa de Rebecca Solnit, y a su pensamiento al mismo tiempo vasto y enfocado, que cautiva por su claridad, su honestidad y su entereza.

Feminist essays for the #MeToo era from "the voice of the resistance," the international bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me ( The New York Times Magazine). Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what''s emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are. Praise for Rebecca Solnit and her essays "Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading." — The New Republic "In these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit''s writing is a forceful corrective. Whose Story Is This? is a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age." — The Guardian "Solnit''s passionate, shrewd, and hopeful critiques are a road map for positive change." — Kirkus Reviews "Solnit''s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy." — Elle "Rebecca Solnit reasserts herself here as one of the most astute cultural critics in progressive discourse." — Publishers Weekly "No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that''s marked this new millennium." —Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org

"What would the world look like if girls grew up reading fairytales made from the magic they carry inside themselves? Breathtakingly beautiful, is what." —Lidia Yuknavich, national bestselling author In her debut children''s book, Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world, featuring gorgeous silhouettes from Arthur Rackham on each page. In this modern twist on the classic story, Cinderella, who would rather just be Ella, meets her fairy godmother, goes to a ball, and makes friends with a prince. But that is where the familiar story ends. Instead of waiting to be rescued, Cinderella learns that she can save herself and those around her by being true to herself and standing up for what she believes. "Being a princess is absolutely fine if that''s what you choose. It''s having those choices taken away from you that make for big problems. Cinderella in Solnit''s book is given that choice. She''s allowed to say what her dreams are, and then she goes out and attains them. And they''re not huge ridiculous dreams but small, happy, manageable ones. Ultimately, that''s the gift Ms. Solnit is giving kids with this book." — School Library Journal "This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and—perhaps most salient—imagination and liberty. Through the imaginations of our childhoods, can we find our true selves liberated in adulthood?" —Chelsea Handler "This is, hands down, a wonderful book—one that even the jaded reader will clasp upon completion with a contented sigh." — The New York Times

Opfølgeren til den moderne klassiker Mænd forklarer mig ting. I 12 nye skarpe og tankevækkende essays uddyber forfatteren og aktivisten Rebecca Solnit sine analyser af kønsroller og magtforhold. De handler om kvinder, som nægter at bliver tiet ihjel, om vold mod kvinder, om voldtægt-jokens historie, men også om Virginia Woolf, hollywoodfilmen Giganten og om de 80 bøger, enhver kvinde bør undgå. En rød tråd gennem essayene er tavshed og fortielse, og de mange forskellige måder kvinder – men også mænd – tvinges til tavshed på. Men også den nye feministiske bevægelse, som er ved at vokse frem, og som hastigt er i gang med at ændre vores syn på samtykke, magt, rettigheder, køn og repræsentation. Rebecca Solnit (f. 1961) er prisvindende amerikansk historiker, aktivist og forfatter til 18 bøger om bl.a. landskab, miljø, kunst og politik. Hun er en af USA’s fremmeste og mest læste essayister. Pressen skriver: ››Solnits essays er veloplagte, sjove, gennemarbejdede og velskrevne og fulde af de små ting, som vi skylder hinanden - både mænd og kvinder - at være mere opmærksomme på. Hendes grundighed og måde at gennemskue virkeligheden på er dybt inspirerende. ‹‹ ***** ? Femina ››Rebecca Solnits to essaysamlinger Mænd forklarer mig ting og Alle spørgsmåls moder, der nu udgives samlet på dansk, handler i høj grad om tavshed... De er som den kontante, morsomme og ikke mindst rammende replik, man drømmer om at komme med, når nogen siger noget dumt.‹‹ – Information ››Efter at have læst den amerikanske historiker og kulturkritiker Rebeccas Solnits to essaysamlinger Mænd forklarer mig ting og Alle spørgsmåls moder går det med nogen forsinkelse op for mig, at det er nødvendigt at skue grundigt indad... Hendes dybe indignation over måden, kvinder har været reduceret til parenteser i kulturhistorien indtil slutningen af 1960erne, og stadig med et heftigt efterslæb, er stærkt brændstof. ‹‹ – Weekendavisen ››der er en uforskrækkethed over hendes essays... Fra voldtægt til Trump, over miljøaktivisme, ulighedsdebatter, skoleskyderier og det kulturelle ønske om kvinders tavshed. Altsammen båret af et ukrænkeligt håb om forandring. ‹‹ – Berlingske ››Begge essaysamlinger handler om tavshed og opgøret med den. Både den tavshed, talende mænd pålægger kvinder, når de afbryder dem, den tavshed, ofre for overgreb tvinges ind i, eller den tavshed angående følelser, som patriarkatet pålægger mænd... Solnit er popfeminismens store stjerne... spiddende og morsom...‹‹ – Politiken ››Rebecca Solnit har uden tvivl styr på hvad hun skriver om, og det emmer samlingen, eller rettere samlingerne, af. Der er ingen tvivl om at jeg skal læse mere af hende! Mænd forklarer mig ting / Alle spørgsmåls moder er en af de bedste essay-samlinger jeg længe har læst og uden tvivl også en af de bedste feministiske værker. En uforglemmelig, berigende læseoplevelse som jeg kun kan anbefale hvis man interesserer sig for emnet. ‹‹ – Frk. Litteratur ››Hvis man var i tvivl om, at #metoo ikke er for det bedste og fuld berettiget, så burde man tage at læse den her bog. Den sætter det hele i perspektiv. Og jeg tror ikke, at der er nogen der bagefter vil påstå, at den bevægelse ikke har gjort en masse godt. ... Og måske er lige netop denne bog bedst til mænd, fordi den indeholder så mange fakta, som ikke er til at løbe fra ‹‹ – Skrivepulten

Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex interactions that make up a living, creative, diverse city. One of our most impassioned and acclaimed chroniclers of American urbanism, Rebecca Solnit explores the impact of skyrocketing rents, architectural homogenization, and the links between artists and gentrification. Wealth, she argues, is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty. Schwartzenberg''s social documentary photographs work with Solnit''s interlinked essays to memorialize San Francisco''s vanishing spaces of civic memory and public life. Both a portrait of an acute crisis and a call to defend collective public life, Hollow City makes a fervent case for the imaginative potential of cities.

"[A] call to arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in America—from racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trump" ( Poets & Writers). National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor''s Choice Prize for Nonfiction Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later." To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that "to acknowledge this state of war is to admit the need for peace," countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope. "Solnit''s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy." — Elle "Solnit is careful with her words (she always is) but never so much that she mutes the infuriated spirit that drives these essays." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Solnit [is] a powerful cultural critic: as always, she opts for measured assessment and pragmatism over hype and hysteria." — Publishers Weekly "Essential reading for anyone living in America today." — The Brooklyn Rail

Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.

Em seu ensaio icônico “Os Homens Explicam Tudo para Mim”, Rebecca Solnit foca seu olhar inquisitivo no tema dos direitos da mulher começando por nos contar um episódio cômico: um homem passou uma festa inteira falando de um livro que “ela deveria ler”, se

Pourquoi les hommes se sentent-ils obligés d'expliquer aux femmes ce qu'elles savent déjà ? D'où vient leur certitude de savoir mieux qu'elles ce qu'elles doivent penser, ou faire ? Peut-être de l'Histoire, qui a constamment relégué les voix des femmes au silence. Dans ce recueil d'essais où la colère le dispute à l'intelligence et à l'humour, Rebecca Solnit explore une nouvelle façon de penser le féminisme. Et fournit des armes pour les luttes à venir. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Céline Leroy

In De moeder aller vragen rekent Rebecca Solnit af met vele misvattingen die diep in onze cultuur geworteld zijn. Het titelessay verwijst bijvoorbeeld naar de vraag die een journalist aan Solnit stelde tijdens een lezing over Virginia Woolf. Waarom bleef Woolf kinderloos? Solnit moest deze vraag zelf ook meermaals beantwoorden. Hoe vaak zou die vraag aan een mannelijke auteur worden gesteld? Dit is slechts een van de vele ingesleten denkbeelden die Solnit onder de loep neemt in de opvolger van Mannen leggen me altijd alles uit. Sinds de komst van president Trump is haar verontwaardiging over de groeiende ongelijkheid in de Westerse samenleving met de dag toegenomen. Met haar glasheldere inzichten toont ze zich een van de belangrijkste activistische schrijvers van deze tijd, zonder ook maar een moment in dogma’s te vervallen. ‘Solnit is een meester in het blootleggen van de donkere onderstromen van gewone, alledaagse situaties.’ ELLE

Em seu ensaio icônico "Os Homens Explicam Tudo para Mim", Rebecca Solnit foca seu olhar inquisitivo no tema dos direitos da mulher começando por nos contar um episódio cômico: um homem passou uma festa inteira falando de um livro que "ela deveria ler", sem lhe dar chance de dizer que, na verdade, ela era a autora. A partir dessa situação, Rebecca vai debater o termo mansplaining, o fenômeno machista de homens assumirem que, independentemente do assunto, eles possuem mais conhecimento sobre o tema do que as mulheres, insistindo na explicação, quando muitas vezes a mulher tem mais domínio do que o próprio homem. Por meio dos seus melhores textos feministas, ensaios irônicos, indignados, poéticos e irrequie-tos, Solnit fala sobre as diferentes manifestações de violência contra a mulher, que vão desde silenciamento à agressão física, violência e morte. Os Homens Explicam Tudo para Mim é uma exploração corajosa e incisiva de problemas que uma cultura patriarcal não reconhece, necessariamente, como problemas. Com graça e energia, e numa prosa belíssima e provocativa, Rebecca Solnit demonstra que é tanto uma figura fundamental do movimento feminista atual como uma pensadora radical e generosa.

In Mannen leggen me altijd alles uit maakt Rebecca Solnit duidelijk hoe onze samenleving nog altijd is doortrokken van ongelijkheid tussen de seksen. In het titelessay introduceert ze het verschijnsel dat inmiddels bekendstaat als ‘mansplaining’. Waarom gaan mannen ervan uit dat ze alles weten? En, minstens zo erg, waarom laten vrouwen zich gewillig de mond snoeren? Marja Pruis laat in het voorwoord haar licht schijnen op het fenomeen Solnit. ‘Verhelderend, geruststellend en nog grappig ook. Mijn boek van het jaar.’ LENA DUNHAM ‘Solnit is idealistisch op de enige geloofwaardige manier: woedend op de werkelijkheid zonder blind te zijn voor de complexiteit.’ DE GROENE AMSTERDAMMER ‘Scherpzinnige, eigentijdse reflecties over de ongelijkheid tussen mannen en vrouwen.’ THE NEW YORK TIMES