Rebecca Solnit is one of those freelance intellectuals you hardly hear about anymore—unattached to any academic institution, dependent (I'm guessing) on the kindness of publishers. An apprentice to the world at large, she has made a life's work out of scavenging for connections. Solnit's offbeat oeuvre veers through history, politics, nature writing, literary criticism, and memoir. Even a partial list of her... More >>>