Books written by Rebecca Solnit
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life.
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Orwell's Roses
Roses, pleasure and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. 'I loved this book... An...
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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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Wanderlust
La Peregrina por la Paz siguió caminando veintiocho años bajo cualquier cielo, por todos los estados de Estados Unidos, por Canadá y por algunas regiones de México. Al partir ya era una anciana y, vestida con una blusa y unos pantalones ...
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Men Explain Things to Me
"--Salon "Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society.
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The Faraway Nearby
These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult ...
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Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Hidden Wars of the American West
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later and about a hundred...
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The Mother of All Questions
In characteristic style, Solnit mixes humor, keen analysis, and powerful insight in these essays.
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The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms
Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or ...
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Die Kunst, sich zu verlieren: Ein Wegweiser
Die Kunst, sich zu verlieren: Ein Wegweiser
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Die Kunst, sich zu verlieren: ein Führer durch den Irrgarten des Lebens
Die Kunst, sich zu verlieren: ein Führer durch den Irrgarten des Lebens
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Whitney Biennial 2008
This book accompanies the 2008 Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art, always a highly anticipated event in the art world. Inaugurated by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, the...
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Alle spørgsmåls moder
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.
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Los hombres me explican cosas
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.
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Hope In The Dark: The Untold History of People Power
This book encourages us to look away from the brightly lit stage and the tragedy being acted on it, and to see into the shadows, to an alternate understanding of how power plays out.
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Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
When the first edition of Hope in the Dark was published in mid-2004 it gained an instant cult audience. Many readers were so inspired by Solnit's book that they bought multiple copies to give to friends.
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Mannen leggen me altijd alles uit
In Mannen leggen me altijd alles uit maakt Rebecca Solnit duidelijk hoe onze samenleving nog altijd is doortrokken van ongelijkheid tussen de seksen.
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Alle spørsmåls mor
... men følgene er vidt forskjellige både når det gjelder omfang og alvorlighetsgrad. Som jeg skrev i Menn forklarer meg ting, er vold i hjemmet den vanligste årsaken til skader hos amerikanske kvinner; av de to millionene som skades hvert ...
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Å gå seg vill – en felthåndbok
... Menn forklarer meg ting (2016) Josefine Klougart – New Forest (2016) Christian Kracht – De døde (2017) Judith Herman – Lettiparken (2017) Madame Nielsen – Det høyeste vesen (2017) Claire-Louise Bennett – Dam (2017) Lionel Davidson ...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence
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 ...