Call Them by Their True Names American Crises (and Essays) [Hardcover]

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me.Called the voice of the resistance by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change.

Changing the world means changing the story, the names, and the language in which we describe it.?Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.

Armpit Wax
American Emotions
Ideology of Isolation
Na?ve Cynicism
In Praise of Preaching to the Choir
Facing the Furies
American Edges
Death by Gentrification
Bird in a Cage
coda: Injustice
Delayed
Katrina Ten Years Later
The Light from Standing Rock
Monument Wars
Monument to the Unknown DV Victim
Homelessness essay
City of Women
Abolish High School
Electoral Obscenities
Tyranny of the Minority
The Loneliness of Donald Trump
Milestones in Misogyny
Every Election Is a Disaster Movie
Nevertheless, Hope
On Indirect Effects (Guardian, March 2017)