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Call Them by Their True Names

American Crises (and Essays)
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Description

Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.

Product Details

PublisherHaymarket Books
Publish DateSeptember 04, 2018
Pages166
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781608469468
Dimensions7.4 X 5.3 X 0.7 inches | 0.5 pounds

About the Author

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books, including Orwell's Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act.

Reviews

"A searing and super smart call-to-arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in America-from racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trump-Call Them by Their True Names features Solnit's signature wit, humor, honesty, and incisive commentary, and beneath it all, a focus on progress and hope."
-Poets & Writers

"Solnit [is] a powerful cultural critic: as always, she opts for measured assessment and pragmatism over hype and hysteria."
-Publishers Weekly

"Solnit is careful with her words (she always is) but never so much that she mutes the infuriated spirit that drives these essays."
-Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

"Rebecca Solnit is a treasure."
-Marketplace

"Solnit's exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy."
-ELLE

"Rebecca Solnit is the voice of the resistance."
-New York Times Magazine

"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

"Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading."
-The New Republic


"A searing and super smart call-to-arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in America--from racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trump--Call Them by Their True Names features Solnit's signature wit, humor, honesty, and incisive commentary, and beneath it all, a focus on progress and hope."
--Poets & Writers

"Solnit [is] a powerful cultural critic: as always, she opts for measured assessment and pragmatism over hype and hysteria."
--Publishers Weekly

"Solnit is careful with her words (she always is) but never so much that she mutes the infuriated spirit that drives these essays."
--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

"Rebecca Solnit is a treasure."
--Marketplace

"Solnit's exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy."
--ELLE

"Rebecca Solnit is the voice of the resistance."
--New York Times Magazine

"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

"Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading."
--The New Republic

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