Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.
A short, elegant, passionate polemic on the history and future of
progressive political engagement
*Robert Macfarlane*
A great book about political hope is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca
Solnit. It's not long. Read it - and you'll see how the times of
greatest hope are the times of greatest turbulence
*Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez*
Time and again Solnit comes running towards you with a bunch of
hopes she has found and picked in the undergrowth of the times we
are living in. And you remember that hope is not a guarantee for
tomorrow but a detonator of energy for action today
*John Berger*
An intensely personal account, a meditation on activism and
hope
* * Guardian * *
[Solnit] writes with poetic succinctness . . . Her capable way of
converting the activism of the past into a blueprint to inspire
political engagement in the future is as relevant today as when
first published
* * Sunday Mail * *
Fascinating, inspiring and beautifully written
*George Monbiot*
Like Simon Schama, Solnit is a cultural historian in the
desert-mystic mode, trailing ideas like swarms of butterflies
* * Harper's * *
Hope in the Dark is great. The powerful in this world seem to want
to frighten us into following their orders unquestioningly and this
book offers us the key to liberation - and that key is hope
*Tony Benn*
This is a book to be cherished, something to keep close at hand for
those dark moments when you wonder whether the world really is a
better place than it was 50 years ago
* * Independent on Sunday * *
A jewel of a book. Solnit reveals where we were, where we are, and
the step-by-step advances that have been made in human rights, as
we stubbornly stumble out of the darkness
*Studs Terkel*
Her passionate defence of direct action is a refreshingly
corrective, while, crucially, her celebration of people power is
proactive rather than complacent
* * Metro * *
In this extraordinary book, Rebecca Solnit's prose grows poetic
wings that enable her to soar to a visionary height. The good news
that she brings back is that our struggles-with persistence and
courage-are indeed the seeds of kindness
*Mike Davis*
A slim, potent book penned in the wake of the Bush administration's
invasion of Iraq; a book that has grown only more relevant and
poignant in the decade since
*Maria Popova*
Rebecca Solnit is a national literary treasure: a passionate,
close-to-the-ground reporter with the soul and voice of a
philosopher-poet. And, unlike so many who write about the great
injustices of this world, she is an optimist, whose faith is deeply
grounded in a knowledge of history. This is a book to give you not
just hope but zest for the battles ahead
*Adam Hoschschild*
Hope In the Dark changed my life. During a period of pervasive
cynicism and political despair, the first edition of this book
provided me with a model for activist engagement that I have held
dear ever since. Today, as movements for climate, racial, and
economic justice sweep the globe, its message is more relevant than
ever
*Astra Taylor*
No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility,
peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium. Rebecca
Solnit writes as independently as Orwell; she's a great muralist, a
Diego Rivera of words. Literary and progressive America is in a
Solnit moment, which given her endless talent should last a very
long time
*Bill McKibben*
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