Rebecca Solnits essä "Män förklarar saker för mig" har redan fått något av en feministisk klassikerstatus. Denna vidräkning med självupptagna kulturmän som aldrig vill sluta prata och olika former av subtilt eller inte så värst subtilt kvinnoförtryc…
"Gå vilse" är en bok om ovisshet av många olika slag ? ovisshet om var man befinner sig i terrängen eller det egna livet. Den handlar också om ovissheten som konstnärligt verktyg och som historisk erfarenhet, om Yves Klein och hans märkliga blå färg…
Vi lever i en orolig tid när utvecklingen inom världspolitiken tycks absurd, klimatkatastroflarmen ljuder allt högre och klyftorna i samhället bara blir djupare. Därför ger vi nu ut Rebecca Solnits klassiska aktivistbok Hopp som aldrig tidigare ko…
"Det är en av de behagligaste och mest bildande läsupplevelserna jag har haft" /Sinziana Ravini i GP Att gå till fots är inte bara att förflytta sig från en punkt till en annan. Det är också att ingå i ett sammanhang, befinna sig mitt i ett konkret…
Ljuga i offentligheten går att göra på många olika sätt, påpekar Rebecca Solnit i förordet till essäsamlingen "Kalla dem vid deras rätta namn". ”Man kan ljuga genom att blunda för hela sfärer som påverkar och påverkas, utelämna viktig informat…
In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled…
A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and l…
"A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters" (The New York Times Book Review) from the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence "The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I'…
"This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit."--Boston Globe"The antidote to mansplaining."--The Stranger"Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scath…
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities f…
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own cen…
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five dec…
Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time - one who has inspired everyone from rad…
Den här boken börjar och slutar med aprikoser. Närmare bestämt ett berg av aprikoser på golvet i Rebecca Solnits sovrum. Aprikoser i alla stadier, från hårda och gröna till mjuka och brunaktiga. ?Frukten kommer från hennes åldriga och Alzheimerdrab…
Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics
New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me. Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, peop…
Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ('The Loneliest Man in the World') and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space, the…
"One of the Best Books of the 21st Century." --The Guardian "No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium." --Bill McKibben "An elegant reminder that activist victories are…
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit 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 hist…
"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Nonstop Metro…
"Jag skriver om hur den nyväckta feministrörelsen i Nordamerika och runt om i världen förvandlar samhället i snabb takt, inte bara i form av ändrade lagar. Den förändrar vår syn på samtycke, makt, rättigheter, kön, röst och representation. Den här r…
"This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and--perhaps most salient--imagination and liberty. Through the imaginations of our childhoods, can we find our true selves liberated in adulthood?" --Chelsea Handler In her…
National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor's Choice Prize for Nonfiction "Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading." --The New Republic "Solnit's exquisite essays move between the p…
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. "Storming the Gates of Paradise", an anthology of her essential essays from th…
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Recollections of My Nonexistence explores what it was about Californi…
A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience. By the a…
What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers,…
From the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy - a fitting companion to Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award In th…
In a timely follow-up to her national bestseller 'Men Explain Things to Me', Rebecca Solnit offers indispensable commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary,…
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction including Men Explain Things To Me, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness; hailed by th…
In a timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers indispensable commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, th…
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. "A Book of Migrations" portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, coloniza…
"A marvel: a memoir that details her awakening as a feminist, an environmentalist, and a citizen of the world. Every single sentence is exquisite." --Maris Kreizman, Vulture An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a write…
Miehet selittävät minulle asioita on kulttimaineeseen noussut teos, jonka nimiessee on synnyttänyt arkipuheessa viljellyn termin miesselittäminen, ”mansplaining”. Kokoelman avaavassa kirjoituksessa Solnit kuvaa viihdyttävästi ja teräväst…
In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silenci…
"The maps themselves are things of beauty." -The New York Times Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas. From Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jell…
Med essayet "Men explain things to me" ble Solnit et fenomen. Her satte hun ord på den lettere nedlatende og selvhøytidelige måten enkelte menn, men ikke så rent få, har en tendens til å ville øse av sine innsikter over et nært sagt hvilket som hels…
The iconic 20" x 20" "City of Women" map, updated for 2019 with dozens of new NYC icons including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cardi B, and all the All-Girl Robotics Teams of the Bronx. "How does it impact our imaginations that so many places in so man…
Længe før MeToo-kampagnen blev Rebecca Solnit et feministisk ikon, da hun med sit veloplagte essay Mænd forklarer mig ting satte ord på den lettere nedladende og selvsmagende måde, hvorpå viss…
In 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared as the riverbed and surrounding canyons filled with water. Environmentalists considered it a disaster and mourned Glen Canyon as gone forev…
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 me…
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. "Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public…
