Rebecca Solnit

New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me.

Essays at the Intersection

Whose Story Is This?

vanessa

My new favorite essayist. Read for eloquently worded opines about how the choices we make everyday (in both thought and action) can lead to seismic change.

Ivy X

Maggie

Solnit isn’t wrong, but much of this felt like it had been said before- maybe even by Solnit.

Rose Stanley

Bookopolothon, Book the Eighth
Prompt: History (look, it's not that big a board ok)

I absolutely love Solnit's writing. More, please.

Emma Bose

Miguel

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

Whose Story Is This? Essays at the Intersection

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