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Best American Essays

Robert Atwan

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"Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year--sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies--and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found "how discovery can be a deep pleasure." The Best American Essays 2019 includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others.

"A worthwhile series installment that should not only interest contemporary readers but also hold a place in the historical record."-- Library Journal --

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Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of seventeen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and memory, including the updated and reissued Hope in the Dark, three atlases, of San Francisco in 2010, New Orleans in 2013, and New York forthcoming in October; 2014's Men Explain Things to Me; 2013's The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and frequent contributor to the Guardian newspaper.

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Writer, historian, and activist REBECCA SOLNIT is the author of eighteen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism, including two atlases, of San Francisco in 2010 and New Orleans in 2013, Men Explain Things to Me , The Faraway Nearby , A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster , A Field Guide to Getting Lost , Wanderlust: A History of Walking , and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist for Harper’s Magazine .

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Rebecca Solnit: ‘The essay is powerful again. We’re in a golden age’

The US writer on her new collection of essays on ‘further feminisms’, the Trump ‘horrorshow’, and the joy of being an aunt

B y her own account, the writer Rebecca Solnit has never been an optimist. But this is not to say that she isn’t hopeful. “An optimist thinks everything will be fine no matter what, and that justifies doing nothing,” she tells me, just back from her early morning row in San Francisco bay. “But hopefulness as I define it means that we don’t know what is going to happen, and in that uncertainty there is room to act.

Action, moreover, may take many forms in this, the age of Trump, some of them very subtle. “How the American public responds to this unprecedented crisis has everything to do with what happens [next], which is why I feel like my job is trying to remind people we do have [some] power,” she says. “I see the well-justified fear among immigrants, trans people, Muslims. But I also think this will end badly for the administration, which is in free fall. He’s freaked out. He’s thrashing in panic.”

Her voice, which sounds almost merry, drops a little. “To use a Clockwork Orange word, this is a horrorshow.”

Such hopefulness is not only a matter of temperament. How could Solnit fail to be encouraged by the fact that, seemingly against the odds, the essay has made a surprise return to the near-centre of intellectual life, particularly as it is lived online? However much she dislikes the narrative that has her toiling away in obscurity “knitting socks for wild geese in my lean-to on the prairie” until 2008, when her piece Men Explain Things to Me suddenly went viral – “I was plenty visible before,” she writes to me in an email the day after we speak via Skype – it is an undeniable truth that she is now more in demand than ever. “When I started [Solnit is 56], the essay was belles-lettres , decorative. Essays by women, particularly, tended to be treated as memoir even when they were not. Now they’re seen as powerful and compelling again. We’re in a golden age.”

Her work has an impact she could once have only dreamed of. Last May a piece she wrote about Trump for Harper’s – “once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing” – had a million hits online in just three days.

Solnit’s latest collection of essays, The Mother of All Questions , works as a companion to Men Explain Things To Me , the slim volume that preceded it in 2014 (Solnit did not invent the term mansplaining, but having been coined shortly after this book’s title essay appeared, it will now forever be associated with her name). Mostly, the new book, subtitled Further Feminisms , is about violence against women, and the various forms this takes, including the many ways in which they are silenced. But there are two essays involving books, among them 80 Books No Woman Should Read , Solnit’s response to a notorious (and notoriously male) reading list put together by Esquire magazine; a piece about the 1956 movie Giant, starring Elizabeth Taylor; and, finest of all, the title essay, a deft and quietly furious polemic that chips away once again at the idea of motherhood as the sole key to feminine identity (Solnit, who has never married, is childless).

“Yes, the having-children dilemma,” she says, giving the finger to an imaginary interlocutor. “It’s about what makes a worthwhile life. The person who asks you that question – why don’t you have children? – doesn’t want to know you more deeply. In fact, it’s not a question. It’s an accusation. What they’re saying is: I’ve judged you, and found you wrong, weird, insufficiently feminine. What’s so maddening is this assumption that children fulfil a woman – as though we’ve never seen an unhappy mother. It’s the same with marriage. Guess what? There are unhappy marriages: I even saw a movie about one, once. These people see love as a commodity that is there to be gathered. It’s a very aspirational, even capitalist, view of love.”

She likes to tell her friends with children that she’s here to “de-nuclearise” the family, the idea being that in the 21st century, just as in centuries past, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends matter just as much (she loves being an aunt).

Isn’t it wearying still to be dealing with this stuff? Mightn’t we have expected more progress by now in the matter of equality? “I do come up against that frustration,” she says. “And yes, it would have been wonderful if as soon as we introduced the radical idea that women are people and have inalienable rights, everyone had just agreed and we could have moved on.

“But the patriarchy is rooted in the Old Testament: the fact that it didn’t get dismantled in a few decades doesn’t dismay me. When I look at how much things have changed since my birth and today, it’s pretty amazing.”

A new generation of women is, she believes, simply not going to take it any more when it comes to rape and gender violence. Sure, Silicon Valley was “built by white men in their own image”; it dismays her that these same men talk in terms of what women can do to avoid threats online rather than dealing with the attacks themselves, as if the victims were responsible (a state of affairs that harks back to the way rape used widely to be regarded). Nevertheless, she thinks of social media as “a Greek chorus of a million women reinforcing the message that we are not going to let this [violence] be erased or excused”.

Bewitched by stories, Solnit wanted to be a writer almost from the moment she learned to read. The third of four siblings – she is the only girl – she grew up in San Francisco. Her parents were leftists who marched against the Vietnam war, but her father, a town planner, was violent – she has written that he once woke her in the night by throwing chocolate milk in her face – and her parents eventually divorced, an event that cast a prolonged shadow over her teenage years.

When she left school she enrolled at the American University in Paris, after which she studied English at Berkeley, California, where she also enrolled as a graduate journalism student: “Journalism was the only model for nonfiction then, and I still feel lucky that I didn’t end up in some MFA [master of fine arts] programme with a bunch of white kids writing memoirs about their suffering.” Afterwards she worked as an art critic until, under the influence of her brother, David , with whom she first visited the Nevada nuclear test site, she gradually became more interested in green issues.

Her frame of reference grew ever wider, and her writing more singular. Among her books are River of Shadows , an award-winning study of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge; Wanderlust: A History of Walking ; and The Faraway Nearby , which partly tells the story of her mother’s decline into Alzheimer’s and Solnit’s efforts to reconcile with her (their relationship was difficult, the mother having been envious of the daughter), but whose broader themes, as explored in essays on such subjects as Iceland and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , have to do with questions of empathy and human solidarity.

“Lots of people want to be me now,” she says. “But they didn’t 15 years ago, when I was paying my dues. I lived like a graduate student for a long time after I was one, and I still have fairly frugal habits.” Still, even in the leaner times, she never thought of giving up. “I’m an introvert who loves staying home alone, and it wasn’t as if I was yearning to be super-famous. I didn’t want to be the Stephen King of feminist prose style, or something.”

Grateful as she is to those who read her, she now worries about burnout: “So many people want so many things from me, and that makes it hard to clear the space to be deeply thoughtful, to have the unbroken time in which the best writing takes place.”

Carefully, she lifts a hank of her long hair and pushes it over her shoulder. “It’s not that I feel sorry for myself. These are Cadillac problems. But I’m not sure what great rebellion will give me the time in which I might do pretty good work.” She sounds almost wistful. “In a way, my golden age was 20 years ago, a young woman with a pick-up truck, travelling across the American west, participating in land right struggles. There was no internet, which gave me a certain quality of time. The writing was going somewhere, and I was making a modest living. It was a great adventure.”

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‘Beginning of the End’ as Assange Case Returns to Court

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has been in prison for nearly 5 years, fighting a U.S. extradition order. A hearing is his last chance to be granted an appeal in Britain.

Dozens of people stood outside the gates of a stone courthouse, and many of them were carrying signs calling for Julian Assange to be released.

By Megan Specia

Reporting from London.

Since 2019, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been held in a high security prison in southeast London while his lawyers fight a U.S. extradition order . Now, that particular battle may be nearing its end.

On Tuesday, Mr. Assange’s case returned to a British court for a two-day hearing that will determine whether he has exhausted his right to appeal within the U.K. and whether he could be one step closer to being sent to the United States.

Mr. Assange did not appear before the court, declining to attend virtually because of ill health, according to his lawyers, but dozens of protesters gathered outside, demanding his release.

In the United States, Assange, 52, faces charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 that could amount to a sentence of up to 175 years in prison, his lawyers say, although lawyers for the United States government had previously said that he was more likely to be sentenced to between four and six years. Here’s what to know about the long-running legal battle over his extradition and what could happen next.

Assange has been in a British prison for nearly five years. Here’s why.

The U.S. charges against Mr. Assange date to events in 2010, when WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents leaked by Chelsea Manning, an Army intelligence analyst.

The files exposed hidden diplomatic dealings and included revelations about civilian deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In May 2019, during the Trump presidency, the U.S. Justice Department accused Mr. Assange of violating the Espionage Act by soliciting and publishing secret government information, charges that raise profound First Amendment issues . (The Obama administration had considered charging Mr. Assange but decided against it because of the threat to press freedom.)

While Mr. Assange for years has been fighting efforts to extradite him from Britain to face the U.S. charges, his life in limbo in London goes back even further.

In June 2012, Mr. Assange entered the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to escape extradition to Sweden, where he faced an inquiry into unrelated allegations of sexual misconduct and rape that were later dropped. He stayed in the embassy for the next seven years.

In April 2019, he was thrown out of the embassy, where he had become an unwelcome guest, and was promptly arrested for skipping bail. Weeks later, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment which charged Mr. Assange with 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act, by participating in a criminal hacking conspiracy and by encouraging hackers to steal secret material. (Ms. Manning was later sentenced to 35 years in prison but was released after seven years when President Obama commuted her sentence .)

This hearing is the “beginning of the end” of extradition challenges in U.K. courts, Assange’s team says.

The extradition order for Mr. Assange was initially denied by a British judge who ruled in January 2021 that Assange was at risk of suicide if sent to a U.S. prison. Britain’s High Court later reversed that decision after assurances from American officials about his treatment. Priti Patel, Britain’s then home secretary, approved the extradition request in 2022 .

But the legal challenges continued. Mr. Assange’s legal team had an earlier request for an appeal to Ms. Patel’s order rejected by a single judge . Now, two High Court judges will hear his final bid for an appeal in a British court.

Mr. Assange’s legal team was expected to outline its case on Tuesday, followed by the U.S. Justice Department’s legal team. The judges will then consider the case — which could take hours, days or weeks — before announcing their decision.

And there are a few potential outcomes. The judges could allow Mr. Assange to appeal his extradition order, in which case a full appeal hearing would be scheduled, opening the door to a new decision about his extradition.

Or, if Mr. Assange’s request to appeal is denied, he could be sent swiftly to a plane bound for the United States, his legal team has said. But his lawyers have vowed to challenge his extradition in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

Theoretically, that could block his extradition from Britain until the case was heard in Strasbourg because Britain is obliged to follow the court’s judgment as a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights .

The process has taken its toll on Mr. Assange’s health. And rights groups expressed fears about what comes next.

Stella Assange , Mr. Assange’s wife, said during a press briefing last week that her husband, who has been suffering from depression, has aged prematurely during his years in prison, and she fears for his mental and physical health.

“His life is at risk every single day he stays in prison, and if he’s extradited, he will die,” she said. The pair, who began a relationship while Mr. Assange lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy, have two children, and they regularly visit Mr. Assange in prison.

“Julian and I protect the children. They don’t know frankly,” Ms. Assange said about the indictment against him. “And I don’t think it’s fair on them to know what is going on.”

Alice Jill Edwards, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, has urged Britain to halt Mr. Assange’s extradition, citing fears that, if extradited, he would be at risk of treatment amounting to torture or other forms of punishment. In a statement earlier this month, she pointed to risks that he could face “prolonged solitary confinement, despite his precarious mental health status, and to receive a potentially disproportionate sentence.”

The Australian government has also called for Mr. Assange, an Australian citizen, to be sent to his home country, where its parliament passed a motion last week calling for his release. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had discussed the matter in a meeting last fall with President Biden, and on Thursday Mr. Albanese told the Australian parliament “it is appropriate for us to put our very strong view that those countries need to take into account the need for this to be concluded.”

Rights groups like Amnesty International and advocates for press freedom, including Reporters Without Borders, have long called for the U.S. charges against Mr. Assange to be dropped and the extradition order canceled.

Rebecca Vincent, the director of international campaigns for Reporters Without Borders, said in a statement ahead of the hearing that the U.S. could drop the extradition request or consider Mr. Assange’s time in Belmarsh prison as time served.

“None of this is inevitable,” Ms. Vincent said in a statement ahead of the hearing. “No one should face such treatment for publishing information in the public interest.”

Megan Specia reports on Britain, Ireland and the Ukraine war for The Times. She is based in London. More about Megan Specia

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