A review by drjreads
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

4.0

I really like Rebecca Solnit's books. They are impeccably researched, very well written, deal with complex and sometimes overwhelming topics in efficacious and approachable ways, and contain the right amount and blend of theory, real life applications, and pop culture. Sometimes academic feminism can seem to be having conversations in a vacuum of wordiness and theory so obscure that a real point never fully seems to materialize. Solnit has clearly read all the theory and has figured out a way to condense it and render it so effective that a discussion as innocuous sounding as a discussion about Nabokov's Lolita can feel so pointed that a myriad of men will leap into the novel's defense and unironically prove Solnit's point in the first place. It's a brilliant book, yet another one by the gifted essayist, and I'll probably devour another one of her books very shortly. They're that good!