No Straight Road Takes You There

""This is a book of fierce and poetic thinking--and a guide for navigating a rapidly changing, non-linear, living world."" --Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life ""With her deep sense of the movement of history, her agile intellect, hope in the possibilities of action and nimble prose, Solnit continues to surprise and delight. This new collection of essays is a tonic in dark times."" --Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday Madness ""A buoyant, historically astute appreciation of political persistence."" --Kirkus Reviews ""The urgent, prescient essays in Rebecca Solnit's No Straight Road Takes You There name social inequities and ecological pains while insisting upon hope."" --Foreword Reviews ""No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."" --Bill McKibben, author of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon ""[N]o writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance, than Rebecca Solnit."" --Maria Popova, editor of Marginalian ""Solnit's writing is prose poetry and truly beautiful, her thoughts always exploratory and full of curiosity and wonder, the antithesis of dogma, so that it is impossible not to be carried along on her offbeat philosophical detours."" --The Guardian ""In her inimitable and inspiring way, Solnit reminds us that social change follows an unpredictable path. Despite all the obstacles, we must not lose sight of the fact that profound transformation is possible"" --Astra Taylor, author of Remake the World ""Rebecca Solnit is a national literary treasure: a passionate, close-to-the-ground reporter with the soul and voice of a philosopher-poet."" --Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost ""[An] inspired observer and passionate historian, [Solnit] is one of the most creative, penetrating, and eloquent cultural critics writing today."" --Donna Seaman, Booklist