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Rebecca Solnit's Reading List

The author, most recently, of the essay collection "Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises" keeps an eye on the "daily eruptions of the internet": "Like a lot of us, I'm hypervigilant about the crazy stuff going on."

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By the Book: Rebecca Solnit (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-08-16).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Alexander Chee · Buy on Amazon
"Alexander Chee's "How to Write an Autobiographical Novel" is probably the most recently published thing in the stack, and it's wonderful."
Cover of The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell · Buy on Amazon
"It's a tossup between Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier" and Roxane Gay's "Hunger.""
Cover of Hunger
Roxane Gay · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"It's a tossup between Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier" and Roxane Gay's "Hunger.""
Cover of Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges · Buy on Amazon
"More than any other book, Jorge Luis Borges's "Labyrinths," which I discovered when I was 15, showed me what was possible in short prose nonfiction."
David Graeber · Buy on Amazon
"I'm sure some people have heard of David Graeber's thrilling "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology," but I think it's relatively obscure."
L. A. Kauffman · Buy on Amazon
"L. A. Kauffman's "Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism" is the best overview of how protest works — when it does — and what it's achieved over the past 50 years."
Lauren Markham · Buy on Amazon
"Lauren Markham's "The Far Away Brothers" is a beautiful book about two unaccompanied-minor refugees, why they left and what it means to be an undocumented immigrant in the United States."
Jonathan Schell · Buy on Amazon
"Jonathan Schell's "The Unconquerable World" is a stirring history of the rise of nonviolence as a counterforce to state power and violence."
Danielle L. McGuire · Buy on Amazon
"Danielle L. McGuire's "At the Dark End of the Street" is a feminist counter-history of Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement."
Jeff Chang · Buy on Amazon
"Jeff Chang's "We Gon' Be Alright" is a brilliant update to what a lot of us assume is the state of cities and race in the United States."
Charles F. Wilkinson · Buy on Amazon
"Charles F. Wilkinson's "Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations" is a surprisingly encouraging book about cultural revival and Native people making and taking power since World War II."
Cover of Bury the Chains
Adam Hochschild · Buy on Amazon
"to write one of them I'd have to be the Adam Hochschild who wrote "Bury the Chains.""
Willa Cather · Buy on Amazon
"to write one of them I'd have to be … the Willa Cather who wrote "Death Comes to the Archbishop.""

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