Rebecca Solnit

Solnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've experienced over the last fifty years, which has profoundly changed our world. In recognising the interdependent and symbiotic relationships in nature and among humans, this revolution is beginning to overturn capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the human domination of nature - despite the best efforts of the old world to fight back. From one of the most significant thinkers of our day, The Beginning Comes After the End is a culmination of years of activism and offers a unique perspective on our politics and our humanity, to give hope in difficult times and to urgently remind us that the power to change the world is within our reach.

With a new afterword by the author In her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit's beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now.

In 1872, Eadward Muybridge - a British photographer, who had landed in California during the Gold Rush - captured images of high-speed movement. These photographs would go on to lay the foundations for motion pictures, changing the west coast of America, and the world, forever. River of Shadows is both a bold and original biography of a true pioneer - his trailblazing work, and his complicated life - and a portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. Drawing lines from Muybridge's invention to Hollywood and Silicon Valley, Rebecca Solnit explores how this remarkable breakthrough has shaped the world today.

How do we respond to disaster? What expressions of care and solidarity might we find among the debris? A Paradise Built in Hell is a study of five major disasters - the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Halifax explosion of 1917, the Mexico City earthquake of 1985, the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina - and the expressions of altruism, generosity and resourcefulness that emerged in the wake of these tragedies. The result is a sweeping history of some of the foundational events in the modern history of North America, and a meditation on community: challenging us to look afresh at society, and what these models of local, collaborative politics might look like carried through into everyday life.

This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and flat places, or the landscape is cleared away - logged, graded, levelled, tunnelled through - but to stick to these roads is to miss what else is out there. In her writing and activism, Rebecca Solnit has sought the pathless places in order to celebrate indirect and unpredictable consequences, and to embrace slowness and imperfection, which, she argues, are key to understanding the possibilities of change. In her latest essay collection, the award-winning writer explores responses to the climate crisis, as well as reflections on women's rights, the fight for democracy, the trends in masculinity, and the rise of the far right in the West. Incantatory and poetic, positive and engaging, these essays argue for the long-term view and the power of collective action, making a case for seeding change wherever possible, and offering us all a path out of the wilderness.

V pokračovaní bestsellera Muži mi to vysvetlia Rebecca Solnit ponúka úvahy o ženách, ktoré odmietajú byť umlčané, mizogýnnom násilí, krehkej mužskosti literárneho kánonu, nedávnej histórii vtipov o znásilnení a mnohých ďalších témach. Autorka svojím charakteristickým štýlom mieša humor, bystrú analýzu a nadhľad.

V pokračovaní bestsellera Muži mi to vysvetlia Rebecca Solnit ponúka úvahy o ženách, ktoré odmietajú byť umlčané, mizogýnnom násilí, krehkej mužskosti literárneho kánonu, nedávnej histórii vtipov o znásilnení a mnohých ďalších témach. Autorka svojím charakteristickým štýlom mieša humor, bystrú analýzu a nadhľad.

V pokračovaní bestsellera Muži mi to vysvetlia Rebecca Solnit ponúka úvahy o ženách, ktoré odmietajú byť umlčané, mizogýnnom násilí, krehkej mužskosti literárneho kánonu, nedávnej histórii vtipov o znásilnení a mnohých ďalších témach. Autorka svojím charakteristickým štýlom mieša humor, bystrú analýzu a nadhľad.

V pokračovaní bestsellera Muži mi to vysvetlia Rebecca Solnit ponúka úvahy o ženách, ktoré odmietajú byť umlčané, mizogýnnom násilí, krehkej mužskosti literárneho kánonu, nedávnej histórii vtipov o znásilnení a mnohých ďalších témach. Autorka svojím charakteristickým štýlom mieša humor, bystrú analýzu a nadhľad.

A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyoncé Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement and established her as one of the leading thinkers of our time. Here it is collected along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings. From French sex scandals to the nuclear family, rape culture to mansplaining, Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce and incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as 'issues' at all. With grace, wit and energy, and in the most exquisite and inviting of prose, Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement and a radical, humane thinker.

Rebecca Solnit v komickej, ostrej eseji s názvom Muži mi to vysvetlia pomenúva častý problém rozhovorov medzi mužmi a ženami. Píše o mužoch, ktorí mylne predpokladajú, že niečo vedia a ženy to nevedia; píše o tom, kde táto domnienka pramení a ako funguje v praxi. V  knihe je okrem tejto, dnes už známej, eseje šesť ďalších vrátane zamyslenia nad spôsobom, akým spisovateľka Virginia Woolf prijala tajomstvo, nevedomosť, pochybnosť a dvojznačnosť; originálne skúmanie rovnosti v manželstve a desivé zhrnutie rozsahu násilia páchaného na ženách. Rebecca Solnit svojím čitateľsky prístupným štýlom dokazuje, že je jednou z najvplyvnejších mysliteliek feministického hnutia. „Muži mi to stále vysvetľujú. A žiaden z nich sa mi nikdy neospravedlnil za to, že mi nesprávne vysvetľoval niečo, čo poznám, ale on nie.“ Rebecca Solnit je novinárka a historička, autorka takmer dvadsiatich kníh venovaných feminizmu, dejinám západných a pôvodných kultúr, spoločenskej zmene, horskej turistike a chodeniu, nádeji a katastrofe. V slovenčine vyšla jej zbierka esejí Sprievodca strácaním sa. Pravidelne prispieva do časopisu Harper’s, London Review of Books a Los Angeles Times. Žije v San Franciscu.

Rebecca Solnit v komickej, ostrej eseji s názvom Muži mi to vysvetlia pomenúva častý problém rozhovorov medzi mužmi a ženami. Píše o mužoch, ktorí mylne predpokladajú, že niečo vedia a ženy to nevedia; píše o tom, kde táto domnienka pramení a ako funguje v praxi. V knihe je okrem tejto, dnes už známej, eseje šesť ďalších vrátane zamyslenia nad spôsobom, akým spisovateľka Virginia Woolf prijala tajomstvo, nevedomosť, pochybnosť a dvojznačnosť; originálne skúmanie rovnosti v manželstve a desivé zhrnutie rozsahu násilia páchaného na ženách. Rebecca Solnit svojím čitateľsky prístupným štýlom dokazuje, že je jednou z najvplyvnejších mysliteliek feministického hnutia. „Muži mi to stále vysvetľujú. A žiaden z nich sa mi nikdy neospravedlnil za to, že mi nesprávne vysvetľoval niečo, čo poznám, ale on nie.“ Rebecca Solnit je novinárka a historička, autorka takmer dvadsiatich kníh venovaných feminizmu, dejinám západných a pôvodných kultúr, spoločenskej zmene, horskej turistike a chodeniu, nádeji a katastrofe. V slovenčine vyšla jej zbierka esejí Sprievodca strácaním sa. Pravidelne prispieva do časopisu Harper’s, London Review of Books a Los Angeles Times. Žije v San Franciscu.

A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers. What does it mean to be out walking in the world? From pilgrimages to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern classic weaves together numerous histories to trace a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Touching on the philosophers of Ancient Greece, the Romantic poets, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennett, Andre Breton's Nadja, and more, Rebecca Solnit considers what forms of pleasure and freedom walkers have sought at different times. Profound and provocative, Wanderlust invites us to look afresh at the rich, varied, often radical interplay of the body, the imagination, and the world when walking.

In 1936 Orwell planted roses at his cottage in Hertfordshire. Over eighty years later Rebecca Solnit encounters them, and is inspired to explore a different side to the great writer and activist to the one we know so well. Following his journey from the coal mines of England to taking up arms in the Spanish Civil War, and his explosive critiques of Stalin and authoritarianism, here Solnit finds a more hopeful Orwell. And in her dialogue with the author and his fascination with nature, she makes unexpected connections with the colonial legacy of the flower garden, discovers photographer Tina Modotti's extraordinary roses, and reveals Stalin's strange obsession with growing lemons in impossibly cold conditions. A fresh reading of a towering figure of the twentieth century, Orwell's Roses finds solace and solutions for the political and environmental challenges we face today, and is a remarkable reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.

Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. These twists on familiar tales make the perfect Christmas gift. 'She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl...' In the kitchen, in her rags, Cinderella, longs to go to the ball. After all, there is nothing worse than not being invited to the party. Enter her fairy godmother... But that is where the familiar story ends. Cinderella's transformation turns out to be much less about ballgowns, glass slippers and carriages, and much more about finding her truest self. Finally free from the kitchen cinders, who will she turn out to be? *Recommended for ages 6 and up*

Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. These twists on familiar tales make the perfect Christmas gift. 'She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl...' In the kitchen, in her rags, Cinderella, longs to go to the ball. After all, there is nothing worse than not being invited to the party. Enter her fairy godmother... But that is where the familiar story ends. Cinderella's transformation turns out to be much less about ballgowns, glass slippers and carriages, and much more about finding her truest self. Finally free from the kitchen cinders, who will she turn out to be? *Recommended for ages 6 and up*