I think anyone tired of hearing about "patriarchy" and "rape culture" especially needs to read this book, which basically everybody would be better off reading. Solnit is such an amazing thinker. This is not a book about "mansplaining" --Solnit quickly points out her slight displeasure at inadver...
Probably more like 2.5 stars. Overall a pretty good book, if you're looking for something to make the case for feminism and why women deserve equal consideration and a polemic against the scourge of domestic violence. Unfortunately, I'm a bit more of an advanced reader than this, and several of t...
4 stars for presentation, 3.5 for enjoyment. What a fascinating project! The maps & essays in this collection brought to life for me a city and an area with which I have only the barest of familiarity. As an outsider, I didn't feel the same connection to the material that a true San Francisco nat...
Solnit deserves a big round of applause for undertaking what seems like such a simple but at the same time very complex and ambiguous topic to write about. I know many people who have little to no interest in walking as a leisurely activity, and to have them ever consider the underbelly of walkin...
“To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.” I think m...