A review by andrewotey
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit

4.0

Lots of really good stuff in here. Some of the language gets a little too leftist extreme in places, even for me, but the overall message is one I really think is great: take wins where you can and then keep fighting for more. Solnit does a great job of calling people to action while also critiquing some of the puritanical aspects of many progressive activists. She originally wrote it in 2004 after the Iraq invasion and GWB's re-election, which to her felt like a helpless time (much like 2016 does to me). A passage that nicely illustrates this: “People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.” 4.5 stars