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Rebecca Solnit

The latest news and reviews of the essayist Rebecca Solnit.

January 2023

  • fields in Central Valley, California.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about California

    From seething satire to pastoral tales and suspense, the state shows very different faces in these books, but they are united by a love for their setting

July 2022

  • Composite of book covers

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Dave Eggers, Rebecca Solnit and more

    Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, from an open-minded study of drugs to affecting short stories

May 2022

  • Christos Tsiolkas, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Hanya Yanigahara at the Sydney writers festival

    Controversies, epiphanies and the case against Canva: highlights from Sydney writers’ festival

    Coinciding with the federal election, this year’s festival buzzed with big ideas about politics, hope and writing. Here are 10 things we learned

March 2022

  • From left: Amy Winehouse (Camden Town), Reni Eddo-Lodge, Munroe Bergdorf (Piccadilly Circus) and Zadie Smith (Queen’s Park).

    Next stop, Sylvia Plath! Why it is time to redraw the London Underground map

    The official London tube map has only three stops named after women. Together with the actor Emma Watson and the author Rebecca Solnit, I’ve been working on a feminist alternative. Here’s the story behind our contribution to International Women’s Day

October 2021

  • George Orwell's former home in Wallington, Hertfordshire, where he planted roses in 1936.

    Book of the day
    Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit review – deadheading with the writer and thinker

    Inspired by George Orwell’s love of gardening, Solnit’s suitably rambling book should appeal to the green-fingered and the politically committed alike

July 2020

  • Rebecca Solnit, Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson

    Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson to redraw London tube map with women's names

    Suggestions sought for public history project inspired by similar map of New York led by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

March 2020

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    Observer New Review Q&A
    Rebecca Solnit: 'I came to the idea of hope as an activist and writer of history'

    The acclaimed US essayist on ‘ambient harassment’, freeing women’s voices – and why she’s looking forward to a date with Mary Beard
  • Rebecca Solnit

    Book of the day
    Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit review – figuring out what stories to tell

    The influential American writer’s memoir is less about soul-baring than the story of men’s attempts to silence women
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    Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit review – memoir and male violence

    The acclaimed feminist writer on her formative years, feeling silenced and the first room of her own – a light-filled flat in San Francisco

February 2020

  • Head shot of writer Rebecca Solnit, against grey background, photographed in 2017

    Rebecca Solnit: ‘Younger feminists have shifted my understanding’

    It’s a myth that wisdom comes only with age, the writer argues. Young women and girls offer new tools to use

January 2020

  • a contemporary artist’s impression of Celia Fiennes on one of her side-saddle journeys

    Top 10s
    Top 10 political travel books

    From Beryl Bainbridge in Milton Keynes to Salman Rushdie in Nicaragua, politics has driven many writers’ journeys

December 2019

  • Rebecca Solnit, Tiffany Haddish, and Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory.

    Hope in the dark: culture to make you feel less terrible about the UK election

    You may be distraught at the result, or just want a break from politics – so find solace in our critics’ pick of 30 films, songs, books and more to hide under a duvet with

September 2019

  • Books of the century so far

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best books of the 21st century

  • SOLNIT_0094.jpg<br>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF - AUG 15, 2017: Writer Rebecca Solnit, photographed in San Francisco. Photo by John Lee COPYRIGHT 2017 JOHN LEE PICTURES www.johnleepictures.com

    Whose Story is This?; Trick Mirror; Coventry – review

March 2019

  • ‘Wry and resonant’ … Danielle McLaughlin.

    'It was like a miracle': Eight writers surprised with $165,000 awards

    Winners of Windham-Campbell prizes, intended to free authors from money worries, only learn they were in contention after they have won

December 2018

  • a stream at Illiers-Combray, France, where Proust spent the childhood summers described in In Search of Lost Time.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about the seasons

    A writer who has swapped city life for sheep farming chooses reading attuned to the year’s cycles, from Rachel Cusk to Marcel Proust

May 2018

  • Debra Winger in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1990 film of The Sheltering Sky.

    Top 10s
    Carys Davies’ top 10 wilderness books

    From Eric Newby’s bliss in the Hindu Kush to Paul Bowles’s Saharan horrors, the novelist shares her favourite visions of unfathomable territory

November 2017

  • Rebecca Solnit

    Book of the day
    The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit review – ending women’s silence

    A collection of essays on ‘further feminisms’ from the writer who inspired the term ‘mansplaining’ is convinced that new stories will open up the world
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