Call Them By Their True Names, Rebecca Solnit
Call Them By Their True Names, Rebecca Solnit
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Call Them By Their True Names
American Crises (and Essays)

Author: Rebecca Solnit

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/04/2018

Synopsis

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later." To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that "to acknowledge this state of war is to admit the need for peace," countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.

About Rebecca Solnit

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them By Their True Names (winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich

‘Hope is a belief that what we do might matter, an understanding that the future is not yet written.’ A common theme flowing through her 2018 collection Call Them By Their True Names is the way we are diverted from addressing the real problems that plague us. Through intentional misdirection through......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

Another great essay collection from a leading feminist writer. In Call Them by Their True Names, Rebecca Solnit takes aim at the Trump administration and its racism, sexism, xenophobia, etc. She addresses an impressive array of topics, including gentrification, environmental justice, speaking truth......more

Goodreads review by Meike

(Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises - now available in German) It's certainly not like everything in Europe is just sunshine and butterflies, but what is happening in the US right now has reached a level of insanity that is pretty hard to comprehend from over here. So when I started Solni......more

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