The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit

Solnit moves nimbly from Orwell to Elvis, to contemporary urban gardening to 1970s California macrame and punk rock, and on to searing questions about the environment, freedom, family, class, work, and friendship.

This rich collection tours places as diverse as Haiti and Iceland movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring an original take on the question of who did Henry David Thoreau's laundry and a searching look at what the hatred of country music really means. Gathered here are celebrated iconic essays along with little-known pieces that create a powerful survey of the world we live in, from the jungles of the Zapatistas in Mexico to the splendors of the Arctic. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit's concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and community, all while writing with the lyricism of a poet to achieve incandescence and wisdom. The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction including Men Explain Things To Me, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness hailed by the Los Angeles Times as 'globally wide-ranging and topicĪlly urgent and the Boston Globe as 'luminous and precise.'. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society.'-San Francisco Chronicle Top Shelf 'Solnit is] the perfect writer to tackle the subject: Her prose style is so clear and cool.'-The New Republic.

'This slim book hums with power and wit.'-Boston Globe 'The Antidote to Mansplaining.'-The Stranger 'Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions.'-Salon 'Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. She ends on a serious note- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, 'He's trying to kill me ' The updated edition of this national bestseller features two new essays, including Solnit's recent essay on the remarkable feminist conversation that arose in the wake of the 2014 Isla Vista killings. Ing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air In her comic, scathing essay 'Men Explain Things to Me,' Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women.

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit