ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025 ACCORDING TO FORBES
The author of Los hombres me explican cosas and Wanderlust returns with a book full of wisdom and clarity: a call to reflection and an alternative way of life.
What can a three-hundred-year-old violin teach us about our forests? What are the nuances of ice? How does the way stories are told influence them? These questions are the guiding thread of Rebecca Solnit’s new book: to reach new horizons, she whispers between its pages, it is necessary to devise alternative paths, take the back road and look at the landscape, get lost in the detour to eventually reach an unexpected way of being, thinking, and acting.
Like a roadmap to an imagined world, this volume gathers essays as varied as its author’s thinking, who with her characteristic agility jumps from her observations about nature and our relationship with it, to the analysis of the current feminist struggle or the modern implications of her famous concept of mansplaining. For Solnit, the exercise of thinking is above all a reflection on how thought itself is constructed.
