Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

“Describing the slowness of change is often confused with acceptance of the status quo. It’s really the opposite.”

 
By Rebecca Solnit  January 11, 2024
Photography

Rebecca Solnit on Meghann Riepenhoff’s Cyanotype Prints Made in Freezing Landscapes

By Rebecca Solnit and Meghann Riepenhoff  December 13, 2023
Climate Fiction

Counter History: Nine Retellings and Reinventions of Noah’s Ark

By Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates  November 8, 2023
Love Objects

Annihilation, Beauty, and Shakespeare: Is Juliet the Best Dead Girl?

By Sophie Duncan  June 7, 2023
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Hannah Matthews is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  May 3, 2023
Paperbacks

20 new paperbacks hitting shelves this April.

By Gabrielle Bellot  March 31, 2023
Interview with a Poet

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

By Peter Mishler  March 15, 2023
2023 Oscars

Oscars Countdown: What to Read (and Watch) After TÁR

By Literary Hub  March 8, 2023
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Courtney Maum is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  February 17, 2023
The Hub

Of course Cate Blanchett reads Rebecca Solnit.

By Emily Temple  January 6, 2023
Daily Fiction

Waking Beauty

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 8, 2022
The Hub

15 paperbacks coming to bookstores near you this October.

By Katie Yee  October 3, 2022
Behind the Mic

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez and Introduction by Rebecca Solnit, Read by James Naughton

By Behind the Mic   July 29, 2022
Writers in Conversation

“Warnings Imply You Have a Choice.” Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Margaret Atwood

By Literary Hub  June 22, 2022
Dictation

Talking to Myself: How Dictation Software Helped Me Navigate Pandemic Pain

By Kim Beil  April 20, 2022
The Hub

A new map of the London Underground highlights the women who shaped the city.

By Corinne Segal  March 9, 2022
Gender

Sexism Wants Women to Think We’re Stupid—and We Believe It

By Mona Chollet  March 9, 2022
So Many Damn Books

Dana Stevens on Writing a “Zigzagging Biography” of Buster Keaton

By So Many Damn Books  March 1, 2022
Justice

Hope on Far Horizons: Rebecca Solnit on the Exoneration of Kevin Strickland

By Rebecca Solnit  December 21, 2021
Open Source

Plants and Politics: Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell’s Garden

By Open Source  November 19, 2021
Narrative Structures

In Praise of the Meander: Rebecca Solnit on Letting Nonfiction Narrative Find Its Own Way

By Rebecca Solnit  November 10, 2021
First Draft

Rebecca Solnit on Pleasure, Flowers, and Orwell

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 8, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

Rebecca Solnit: Why It Matters That George Orwell Was a Gardener

By The Quarantine Tapes  November 2, 2021
Reading Lists

On the Very Human Importance of Walking: A Reading List

By Katherine May  October 22, 2021
Botany

Rebecca Solnit on the Myriad Meanings of the Rose

By Rebecca Solnit  October 19, 2021
new books tuesday

16 new books to look for this week.

By Katie Yee  October 19, 2021
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