Tapestry | Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit

The Case of the Missing Perpetrator

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In a detective novel, you begin in a state of ignorance and advance toward knowledge, clue by clue.

To Break The Story, You Must Break The Status Quo

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Break the story is a line journalists use to mean getting a scoop, being the first to tell something, but for me the term has deeper resonance.

Men Explain Lolita To Me

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It is a fact universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of an opinion must be in want of a correction. Well, actually, no it isn’t, but who doesn’t love riffing on Jane Austen?

80 Books No Woman Should Read

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A few years ago, Esquire put together a list that keeps rising from the dead like a zombie to haunt the Internet.

A Hopeful Manifesto for the Defeated Activist

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It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine. The evidence is all around us of tremendous suffering and tremendous destruction.

Diary

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In or around June 1995 human character changed again. Or rather, it began to undergo a metamorphosis that is still not complete, but is profound – and troubling, not least because it is hardly noted.

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