No straight road takes you there : essays for uneven terrain / Rebecca Solnit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solnit, Rebecca, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Feminism.

Hope.

Power (Social sciences).

Climatic changes.

climate change.

feminism.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

176 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Essays for uneven terrain

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2025.

Summary:

"Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

In praise of the indirect, the unpredictable, the immeasurable, the slow, and the subtle

Visions. A truce with the trees

Sky full of forests

On letting go of certainty in a story that never ends

Tortoise at the mayfly party

In praise of the meander

Insurrectionary aunthood

Revisions. Despair is a luxury

On not meeting Nazis halfway

Against centrism and its biases

In the shadow of Silicon Valley

Masculinity as radical selfishness

Abortion is an economic issue

Toward a democracy of voices

The storykiller and his sentence

Feminism has just begun

More visions. Deep time versus short term

Changing the climate story

Climate of abundance

The great transformation

Hope on far horizons

Credo.

ISBN:

9798888903636

OCLC:

1518190356