Books written by Rebecca Solnit
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La madre de todas las preguntas
El relato antiabortista a menudo versa sobre mujeres depravadas que mantienen relaciones sexuales solo ¡y al diablo con las consecuencias! El hecho de que no puedan practicar este tipo de sexo con riesgo de preñez porque sí sin hombres ...
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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Throwing out the crippling assumptions with which many activists proceed, award-winning author Solnit proposes a new vision of how change happens.
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Wanderlust explores the profound relationship between thinking and walking, walking and culture, and argues for the preservation of the time and space in which to walk in an ever-more car dependent and accelerated world.
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Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach
Landscapes by Misrach. Beauty, mystery and abuse of the American desert. First comprehensive survey of R. Misrach's epic work-in-progress, serves as an exhibition catalogue.
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A Book of Migrations
On a little glass shelf above the chimp, the lacy bones of a tiny white-handed gibbon's upright and humanlike skeleton presided, like a fanged angel with arms that reached its ankles. The suspension of the human skeleton gave visible ...
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Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
The light darkens, filters through the limbs, and descends in lacy patterns on the sidewalk. Below the earth, roots reach for one another, as if to hold hands, and interlock, stabilizing the entire corridor. Parades alter the landscape ...
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As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
On a little glass shelf above the chimp , the lacy bones of a tiny white - handed gibbon's upright and humanlike skeleton presided , like a fanged angel with arms that reached its ankles . The suspension of the human skeleton gave ...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Lacy M. Johnson writes of a relationship so controlling that , when she left him , the man built a padded room in which to rape and murder her and from which she escaped after the former and before the latter : “ I tried diminishing ...
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As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
... which drained the warmth out of sunlight and made whole summers gloomy . ( It may be he was talking about the high - atmospheric effects of London smog ; the famous London fog of Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was itself the ...
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A Book of Migrations
... of Roddy Doyle's novels. It was the city's central artery, the Liffey, that held my attention, though, and I found a version of it in stone on the walls of the Custom House. Enormously long, gleamingly white, and heavily adorned ...
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Mary Doyle wrote a cousin on a scrap of brown-paper bag, “A large number of men and even women”. Smith, San Francisco Is Burning, 160. An officer's daughter wrote a friend, “A good many awful men are loose”: Hansen and Condon, ...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
It came in part from seeing Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams talk and from meeting Susan Sontag, I asked myself why, though I was writing about politics in various ways, I wasn't speaking as directly as Sontag was to what was in ...
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The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
The best political essays from Orion Magazine
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The Sky Book
The photographs in The Sky Book comprise Richard Misrach's most recent, most ambitious series, which transposes his narrative from the land to the sky. The images mediate between document and abstraction, reality and metaphor.
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience.
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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
An anthology of nearly forty essays, representing the author's work over the past ten years, offers an insightful overview of American politics, current affairs, culture, society, and history, written from the perspective of a noted ...
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Una guía sobre el arte de perderse
Escrito como una serie de ensayos autobiográficos, 'Una guía sobre el arte de perderse' se basa en momentos y relaciones emblemáticos en la vida de Rebecca Solnit para explorar la incertidumbre, la confianza, la pérdida, la memoria, el ...
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves.
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Cinderella Liberator
"This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and--perhaps most salient--imagination and liberty.
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of ...