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A review by mallott
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
4.0
An interesting collection of essays from a masterful writer. The essays within were clearly not written with this anthology in mind, so there's an at-times tedious self-repetition in terms of acquainting the reader with certain news stories. But she is an excellent and thoughtful writer, so that shouldn't be too much of a deterrent.
The stranger thing, though, is how rapidly this book has become an historical artifact, seemingly trapped in an era long since past, even though it's been only one year. Such is the effect of Donald Trump on what most of us perceived as the arc of history. The optimism that Solnit professes with regards to public discourse around rape is painful to read now.
But it is an interesting and worthwhile artifact of feminism from 2014-2016, when Gamergate and online misogyny had not yet catapulted a white supremacist into the presidency.
The stranger thing, though, is how rapidly this book has become an historical artifact, seemingly trapped in an era long since past, even though it's been only one year. Such is the effect of Donald Trump on what most of us perceived as the arc of history. The optimism that Solnit professes with regards to public discourse around rape is painful to read now.
But it is an interesting and worthwhile artifact of feminism from 2014-2016, when Gamergate and online misogyny had not yet catapulted a white supremacist into the presidency.