<div>A collection of feminist essays steeped in &ldquo;Solnit&rsquo;s unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity&rdquo; (The Los Angeles Review). In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. In characteristic style, &ldquo;Solnit draw[s] anecdotes of female indignity or male aggression from history, social media, literature, popular culture, and the news . . . The main essay in the book is about the various ways that women are silenced, and Solnit focuses upon the power of storytelling&mdash;the way that who gets to speak, and about what, shapes how a society understands itself and what it expects from its members. The Mother of All Questions poses the thesis that telling women&rsquo;s stories to the world will change the way that the world treats women, and it sets out to tell as many of those stories as possible&rdquo; (The New Yorker). &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a new feminist revolution&mdash;open to people of all genders&mdash;brewing right now and Rebecca Solnit is one of its most powerful, not to mention beguiling, voices.&rdquo;&mdash;Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Natural Causes &ldquo;Short, incisive essays that pack a powerful punch.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A keen and timely commentary on gender and feminism. Solnit&rsquo;s voice is calm, clear, and unapologetic; each essay balances a warm wit with confident, thoughtful analysis, resulting in a collection that is as enjoyable and accessible as it is incisive.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

The Mother of All Questions

<div>The National Book Critics Circle Award&ndash;winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect &ldquo;antidote to mansplaining&rdquo; (The Stranger). In her comic, scathing essay &ldquo;Men Explain Things to Me,&rdquo; Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don&rsquo;t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note&mdash; because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s trying to kill me!&rdquo; This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf&rsquo;s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women. &ldquo;In this series of personal but unsentimental essays, Solnit gives succinct shorthand to a familiar female experience that before had gone unarticulated, perhaps even unrecognized.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;Essential feminist reading.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Republic &ldquo;This slim book hums with power and wit.&rdquo; &mdash;Boston Globe &ldquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle &ldquo;Essential.&rdquo; &mdash;Marketplace &ldquo;Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions.&rdquo; &mdash;Salon</div>

Men Explain Things to Me

<div>&ldquo;[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes&rdquo; (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit&rsquo;s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them&mdash;and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. &ldquo;One of the best books of the 21st century.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that&rsquo;s marked this new millennium.&rdquo; &mdash;Bill McKibben, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Falter &ldquo;An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker</div>

Hope in the Dark

<div>&ldquo;[A] call to arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in America&mdash;from racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trump&rdquo; (Poets &amp; Writers). National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor&rsquo;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 &ldquo;the voice of the resistance&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that &ldquo;to acknowledge this state of war is to admit the need for peace,&rdquo; countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope. &ldquo;Solnit&rsquo;s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.&rdquo; &mdash;Elle &ldquo;Solnit is careful with her words (she always is) but never so much that she mutes the infuriated spirit that drives these essays.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews (starred review) &ldquo;Solnit [is] a powerful cultural critic: as always, she opts for measured assessment and pragmatism over hype and hysteria.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Essential reading for anyone living in America today.&rdquo; &mdash;The Brooklyn Rail</div>

Call Them by Their True Names

<div>Feminist essays for the #MeToo era from &ldquo;the voice of the resistance,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are. Praise for Rebecca Solnit and her essays &ldquo;Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Republic &ldquo;In these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit&rsquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Solnit&rsquo;s passionate, shrewd, and hopeful critiques are a road map for positive change.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;Solnit&rsquo;s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.&rdquo; &mdash;Elle &ldquo;Rebecca Solnit reasserts herself here as one of the most astute cultural critics in progressive discourse.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that&rsquo;s marked this new millennium.&rdquo; &mdash;Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org</div>

Whose Story Is This?

<div>&ldquo;What would the world look like if girls grew up reading fairytales made from the magic they carry inside themselves? Breathtakingly beautiful, is what.&rdquo; &mdash;Lidia Yuknavich, national bestselling author In her debut children&rsquo;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. &ldquo;Being a princess is absolutely fine if that&rsquo;s what you choose. It&rsquo;s having those choices taken away from you that make for big problems. Cinderella in Solnit&rsquo;s book is given that choice. She&rsquo;s allowed to say what her dreams are, and then she goes out and attains them. And they&rsquo;re not huge ridiculous dreams but small, happy, manageable ones. Ultimately, that&rsquo;s the gift Ms. Solnit is giving kids with this book.&rdquo; &mdash;School Library Journal &ldquo;This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and&mdash;perhaps most salient&mdash;imagination and liberty. Through the imaginations of our childhoods, can we find our true selves liberated in adulthood?&rdquo; &mdash;Chelsea Handler &ldquo;This is, hands down, a wonderful book&mdash;one that even the jaded reader will clasp upon completion with a contented sigh.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times</div>

Cinderella Liberator

<div>&ldquo;A stimulating compendium&rdquo; on topics from antibiotics to animals, featuring Rebecca Solnit, E.O. Wilson, Nicholas Carr, Elizabeth Kolbert, and many more (Kirkus Reviews). &ldquo;A consistently strong series . . . Making connections between seemingly unrelated topics can help expand thinking, as seen in the effects of automated navigation on both airplane pilot error and Inuit hunting accidents that Nicholas Carr explores in &lsquo;The Great Forgetting.&rsquo; Sarah Stewart Johnson makes a similar connection between the loss of a 1912 Antarctic expedition and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in &lsquo;O-Rings.&rsquo; . . . Essays like Virginia Hughes&rsquo;s &lsquo;23 and You&rsquo; investigates the effects of availability of individual genetic information on human interactions, while pieces like Maryn McKenna&rsquo;s &lsquo;Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future&rsquo; and Kate Sheppard&rsquo;s &lsquo;Under Water&rsquo; remind us of unpleasant futures which we have in large part created ourselves. But Barbara Kingsolver&rsquo;s &lsquo;Where it Begins,&rsquo; a lyrical musing on connectedness, or Wilson&rsquo;s optimistic, bug-loving &lsquo;The Rebirth of Gorongosa,&rsquo; reveal that among the strange, shocking, or depressing, there is still unadulterated joy to be found.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Undeniably exquisite . . . meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.&rdquo; &mdash;Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Contributors include: Katherine Bagley &bull; Nicholas Carr &bull; David Dobbs &bull; Pippa Goldschmidt &bull; Amy Harmon &bull; Robin Marantz Henig &bull; Virginia Hughes &bull; Ferris Jabr &bull; Sarah Stewart Johnson &bull; Barbara J. King &bull; Barbara Kingsolver &bull; Maggie Koerth-Baker &bull; Elizabeth Kolbert &bull; Joshua Lang &bull; Maryn McKenna &bull; Seth Mnookin &bull; Justin Nobel &bull; Fred Pearce &bull; Corey S. Powell &bull; Roy Scranton &bull; Kate Sheppard &bull; Bill Sherwonit &bull; Rebecca Solnit &bull; David Treuer &bull; E.O. Wilson &bull; Carl Zimmer</div>

Rebecca Solnit

Books By Rebecca Solnit (7 Books)

The Mother of All Questions

Men Explain Things to Me

Hope in the Dark

Call Them by Their True Names

Whose Story Is This?

Cinderella Liberator

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014

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