A review by guinness74
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Solnit's writing is deep, inspiring, and encouraging. It's been easy, over the last decade or so, when these essays were written, to say that things are hopeless or impossible. Most of that coincided with a Trump presidency, the spectre of which looms ungracefully in the near future once again. Solnit is not a Trump fan, nor am I, but it is refreshing to see that there's something beyond the existential dread that pervades within that idea: the proverbial silver lining, if you will. And Solnit is not puffery or light reading by any stretch. I'm a fairly intelligent person and I found myself going back over paragraphs to understand what it was that she was conveying.
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