Rebecca Solnit lived through the inner-city crack wars in the 1980s and tried most drugs a very long time ago. A TomDispatch regular, she is the author of thirteen books, including, most recently, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, which maps, among other things, the ninety-nine murders in her city in 2008, most of them of poor young men caught up in the usual, and the lives of undocumented laborers in San Francisco.
The Faraway Nearby
By Rebecca SolnitMay 2013
What’s your story? It’s all in the telling.
Rebecca Solnit: A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year
January 2013Violence against women is rampant, systemic, and all about control.
Rebecca Solnit: The Sky’s the Limit
December 2012The demanding gifts of 2012.
Rebecca Solnit: The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
November 2012Hurricane Sandy rides in.
Rebecca Solnit: Our Words Are Our Weapons
October 2012Our political language is in desperate need of a change.
Rebecca Solnit: The Rain On Our Parade
September 2012A letter to my dismal allies.
Rebecca Solnit: Occupy Your Victories
September 2012It’s the first anniversary of the Occupy movement, and there is much to look forward to.
Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me
August 2012Before there was mansplaining, there was Rebecca Solnit’s 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.
Rebecca Solnit: Apologies to Mexico
July 2012As narcotraficantes terrorize Mexico with surreal acts of violence, it’s time to reconsider our basic assumptions about the U.S. War on Drugs.
Rebecca Solnit: Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games
May 2012Sending debt oeonage, poverty, and freaky weather into the arena.
Beholden
David Graeber in conversation with Rebecca SolnitMay 2012
Rebecca Solnit and David Graeber on anarchism as a problem-solving tool, the return of debtors’ prisons, and why communism is ingrained in capitalism
Rebecca Solnit: Mad, Passionate Love—and Violence
February 2012Why the media loves violent acts by protesters, but not that of the banks.
Rebecca Solnit: Our New Currency
December 2011How 2011 became the year of compassion.
Rebecca Solnit: Ms. Civil Society v. Mr. Unaccountable
November 2011How ten years after 9/11 Occupy Wall Street may signify a return to a civil society.
Rebecca Solnit: Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
October 2011This land is your (occupied) land.
Rebecca Solnit: Hope: The Care and Feeding Of
August 2011How it will all end is anybody’s guess, but the future remains wide open. Not only in the Middle East: everywhere, there are victories and emerging possibilities. You just have to open your eyes.
Rebecca Solnit: Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite: Some Thoughts on the IMF, Global Injustice, and a Stranger on a Train
May 2011 |
A genuine class war is being fought openly in our time, and last week, a so-called socialist put himself on the wrong side of it. |
Rebecca Solnit: Unpacking for a Disaster: What You Need to Survive the Unexpected
March 2011 |
In the wake of its present disaster, Japan may already be changing, and that may not be a bad thing. |
Rebecca Solnit: The Butterfly and the Boiling Point: Charting the Wild Winds of Change in 2011
March 2011 |
When a revolution is made, people suddenly find themselves in a changed state—of mind and of nation. The ordinary rules are suspended, and people become engaged with each other in new ways, and develop a new sense of power and possibility. |
Rebecca Solnit: Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves
December 2010 |
Rebecca Solnit acknowledges the activists and workers who work to ensure that another, better world is not just possible, but has been here all along. |
Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earth
October 2010 |
This country is run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding. |
Rebecca Solnit: 350 Degrees of Inseparability
April 2010The good news about the very bad news (about climate change).
Rebecca Solnit: Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster
January 2010The media in disaster bifurcates. Some step out of their usual “objective” roles to respond with kindness and practical aid. Others bring out the arsenal of clichés and pernicious myths and begin to assault the survivors all over again.
