Books written by Rebecca Solnit
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.
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Waking Beauty
A fresh, feminist adaptation of a classic fairy tale from award-winning author Rebecca Solnit.
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Michael Lundgren: Transfigurations
Essay by Rebecca Solnit. Afterword by William Jenkins.
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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
Essays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sage
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Recollections of My Non-Existence
Recollections of My Non-Existence is the landmark memoir from a voice of a generation, and a rally cry for generations to come.
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A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
Recounts the author's travels in Ireland, with reflections on the microcosm of Irish history, with its invasions, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism
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Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Now finally here is one about the town where I live. The format, with the maps, networks, and accompanying stories and histories, is a lovely, nonlinear way of mirroring the almost infinite layers that make up a city.
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Un paraiso en el infierno: Las extraordinarias comunidades que surgen en el desastre
Solnit explora este fenómeno, observando grandes calamidades como el terremoto de 1906 en San Francisco, la explosión de 1917 que destruyó Halifax, el terremoto de la Ciudad de México de 1985, el 11-S en Nueva York y el huracán Katrina ...
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Orwell's Roses
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.” ...
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers.
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Gli uomini mi spiegano le cose. Riflessioni sulla sopraffazione maschile
Gli uomini mi spiegano le cose. Riflessioni sulla sopraffazione maschile
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Ricordi della mia inesistenza
Questa storia inizia quando, non ancora diciottenne, Rebecca Solnit prende possesso di un piccolo appartamento in un vecchio quartiere di San Francisco dove capita di sentire, certe sere, il suono delle sirene antinebbia mescolarsi al ...
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Cenerentola libera tutti
«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 ...
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Storia del camminare
«Un'autrice che sorprende per l'originalità e la precisione. » The New York Times Book Review «Una storia del camminare che parla di tempo, spazio e coscienza del mondo, e allo stesso tempo spiega come mettere un piede davanti all'altro ...
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Chiamare le cose con il loro nome: Bugie, verità e speranze nell'era di Trump e del cambiamento climatico
«Rebecca Solnit è la voce della resistenza. » The New York Times «Solnit dimostra di possedere un talento profetico: sa riconoscere lo spirito dei tempi molto prima che l'opinione corrente lo faccia proprio. » The New York Review of ...
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Cenicienta liberada
Rebecca Solnit revisita este clásico con una descarada heroína que nos inspira a repensar el papel de la mujer en el mundo.
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Las rosas de Orwell
LAS ROSAS DE ORWELL UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE 2022 SEGÚN ELLE «Me encantó este libro. [...] Solnit nos presenta a Orwell como a un padre alegre, esperanzado, amante de la vida, que aprecia los sapos y a los bebés, pero, sobre todo, ...
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Drowned River: The Death & Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Photographers Byron Wolfe (born 1967) and Mark Klett (born 1952), along with writer Rebecca Solnit (born 1961), spent five years exploring the place as expectations and possibilities changed, and the river reemerged at the upper end of the ...
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A Book of Migrations
A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism.