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

4.0

Necessary post-election reading. Rebecca Solnit wrote this book at the start of the Iraq War in 2003 so "hope" has a pre-Obama context here. While the context has evolved, much of what she says about activism and the long road of change still applies. There is some territory here that Solnit has trod at other times in her writing, as when she expands on a sentence from Virginia Woolf's journal: "The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think" — a moment she also explored in Men Explain Things to Me, which was in turn adapted for a New Yorker essay, "Woolf’s Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable"... Read more on my booklog