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Rebecca Solnit

Twenty years ago this October, Rebecca Solnit was writing about the Kennedy assassination for her first book when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck. She hit save, stood in a doorway until the shaking was over, and marveled in the days after at the calm, warm mood of the people of her city and her own changed state of mind. She’s written regularly for TomDispatch since the outbreak of the war in Iraq. Her just published new book, A Paradise Built in Hell (Penguin, 2009), is a monument to human bravery and innovation during disasters.

Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart

The Climate for 2015

By Rebecca Solnit On December 23, 2014On May 15, 2021

Anywhere But Here

Las Vegas and the Global Casino We Call Wall Street

By Rebecca Solnit On December 2, 2014On December 2, 2014

Feminism: The Men Arrive!

(Hooray! Uh-Oh!)

By Rebecca Solnit On November 2, 2014On May 15, 2021

The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises 

Change in a Time of Climate Change 

By Rebecca Solnit On September 18, 2014On May 15, 2021

Our Words Are Our Weapons

The Feminist Battle of the Story in the Wake of the Isla Vista Massacre

By Rebecca Solnit On June 1, 2014On May 15, 2021

Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force 

Feminism Has Just Started (and It’s Not Stopping Now) 

By Rebecca Solnit On May 20, 2014On May 15, 2021

By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire 

The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis 

By Rebecca Solnit On March 11, 2014On March 11, 2014

The Arc of Justice and the Long Run

Hope, History, and Unpredictability

By Rebecca Solnit On December 22, 2013On May 15, 2021

Bigger Than That

(The Difficulty of) Looking at Climate Change

By Rebecca Solnit On October 6, 2013On May 15, 2021

Joy Arises, Rules Fall Apart

Thoughts for the Second Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

By Rebecca Solnit On September 15, 2013On May 15, 2021

Prometheus Among the Cannibals 

A Letter to Edward Snowden

By Rebecca Solnit On July 18, 2013On July 18, 2013

Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire

Google Eats the World

By Rebecca Solnit On June 25, 2013On June 25, 2013

The Far North of Experience 

In Praise of Darkness (and Light) 

By Rebecca Solnit On June 13, 2013On June 13, 2013

Too Soon to Tell

The Case for Hope, Continued

By Rebecca Solnit On May 19, 2013On May 19, 2013

A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year 

Hate Crimes in America (and Elsewhere) 

By Rebecca Solnit On January 24, 2013On May 15, 2021

The Sky’s the Limit

The Demanding Gifts of 2012

By Rebecca Solnit On December 23, 2012On May 15, 2021

The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse

Hurricane Sandy Rides In

By Rebecca Solnit On November 6, 2012On November 6, 2012

Our Words Are Our Weapons

Against the Destruction of the World by Greed

By Rebecca Solnit On October 28, 2012On October 28, 2012

The Rain on Our Parade

A Letter to My Dismal Allies

By Rebecca Solnit On September 27, 2012On May 15, 2021

Occupy Your Victories

Occupy Wall Street’s First Anniversary

By Rebecca Solnit On September 16, 2012On May 15, 2021

Men Explain Things to Me

By Rebecca Solnit On August 19, 2012On August 19, 2012

Apologies to Mexico

By Rebecca Solnit On July 10, 2012On May 15, 2021

Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games

By Rebecca Solnit On May 1, 2012On May 15, 2021

Mad, Passionate Love — and Violence

Occupy Heads into the Spring

By Rebecca Solnit On February 21, 2012On May 15, 2021

Compassion Is Our New Currency

Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds

By Rebecca Solnit On December 22, 2011On May 15, 2021

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