Call Them by Their True Names
by Rebecca Solnit
2020-12-29 22:36:05
Call Them by Their True Names
by Rebecca Solnit
2020-12-29 22:36:05
â[A] call to arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in Americaâfrom racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trumpâ (Poets & Writers). National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction ...
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â[A] call to arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in Americaâfrom racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trumpâ (Poets & Writers). National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editorâs Choice Prize for Nonfiction Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called âthe voice of the resistanceâ by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, âwith so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later.â To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that âto acknowledge this state of war is to admit the need for peace,â countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope. âSolnitâs exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.â âElle âSolnit is careful with her words (she always is) but never so much that she mutes the infuriated spirit that drives these essays.â âKirkus Reviews (starred review) âSolnit [is] a powerful cultural critic: as always, she opts for measured assessment and pragmatism over hype and hysteria.â âPublishers Weekly âEssential reading for anyone living in America today.â âThe Brooklyn Rail
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