THIS COMPACT VOLUME from Haymarket Books collects eighteen of Solnit's shorter pieces, published for the most part in the Guardian or Literary Hub, from 2017 to 2019--the pre-COVID years of the first Trump Administration.
I had read several of them essays before, but in the weeks before the election they seemed worth revisiting, as a reminder of how important it was to keep Trump out of the White House...and then Trump was reëlected, and they served as a grim forecast of what we may be in for again (if not even worse).
Those years were also the high tide of #MeToo, though, so along with the nightmares the collection induced me to re-live, there were reminders that other stories do sometimes manage to get told, the truth does now and then prevail.
All in all, I'm mainly just glad Solnit is out there writing, keeping a torch lit for sanity, lucidity, and justice.
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