Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist whose more than 25 books include Orwell’s Roses, Hope in the Dark, and Men Explain Things to Me. She writes most regularly at meditationsinanemergency.com.

Three Who Made a Revolution Three Who Made a Revolution

Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan and Jane Jacobs opened vast new possibilities for social transformation by writing about widespread attacks on nature, women and the poor.

Mar 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit

Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf

Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America's cultural treasures--a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart's naked greed and exploit...

Feb 21, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit

The Wonder and Horror of 2005 The Wonder and Horror of 2005

In the gloom of post-election 2004 few people, if any, could have anticipated the wild surprises of 2005. Focusing on three unforeseen developments of the past year, a meditation o...

Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit

Creative Destruction Creative Destruction

Edward Burtynsky's photographs are large, colorful and mostly ravishing, despite their subjects.

Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit

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