A review by historyofjess
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises by Rebecca Solnit

informative medium-paced

3.0

This is the second of Solnit's essay collections I've read and I just don't think she's for me. I just don't find her insights to be particularly revelatory. I'm sure these essays could be helpful to some folks, they just mostly felt like things I've already heard or read before (and the Trump-related stuff is definitely extremely well-trod territory). The one essay I found interesting was the story of a Latinx man that had been murdered by police in San Francisco, not because it had anything new to say about police violence, but because it was a story of police violence that I had not heard as much about before.