Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit · 2014
The essay that launched a thousand think-pieces. Solnit dissects the dynamics of silencing with clarity and controlled fury.
The case against
Buy it for the title essay and you've bought about seven pages; the rest is a grab bag of repurposed columns in which Solnit pivots from party anecdote to murder statistics fast enough to strip the gears. The Woolf piece and the Strauss-Kahn piece belong in other books. One famous essay, with assorted debris in orbit around it.
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