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Rebecca Solnit

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 12, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Karen Hao, Rebecca Solnit, Mary H.K. Choi, and Andrew Buss.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 13, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Rebecca Solnit, Aaron Gordon, Jason Daley, Maria T. Allocco, and David Marchese.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Storykiller and His Sentence: Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein

by Sari Botton March 12, 2020October 19, 2022

Rebecca Solnit considers Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence through the lens of storytelling, and who gets to do it now that at least two men who were “in charge of stories” — Weinstein and Woody Allen — have in the past week lost so much of their power, and women are now finding their voices.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads November 9, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter DeMarco, Tiffany Kary and Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Solnit, Will Bostwick, and Rosecrans Baldwin.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

A Confederacy of (Dangerous) Dunces

by Sari Botton November 5, 2018October 19, 2022

Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

On American Identity, the Election, and Family Members Who Support Trump

by Nicole Chung September 28, 2017October 19, 2022

Nicole Chung reflects on the burden of engaging with racism and educating white people, including some in her own family.

Posted inQuotes

Manspreading Writ Large: Rebecca Solnit on Space

by michelleweber July 11, 2017October 19, 2022

In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Occupied Territory

by michelleweber July 11, 2017October 19, 2022

“But equal space and equal security should not be considered rewards for virtue; they are rights in and of themselves, unrealized in innumerable ways as yet.”

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads June 2, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Rebecca Solnit, Robert F. Worth, Margaret Talbot, Porochista Khakpour, and Frank Bures.

Posted inCurrent Events, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

‘Equality Keeps Us Honest’: Rebecca Solnit on the Ignorance of Privilege

by michelleweber May 31, 2017October 19, 2022

“This is why I always pair privilege with obliviousness; obliviousness is privilege’s form of deprivation.”

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