![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rebecca Solnit (Photograph: Sallie Dean Shatz) I’ve found no more lucid and luminous a defense of hope than the one Rebecca Solnit launches in Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities ( public library) - a slim, potent book penned in the wake of the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq a book that has grown only more relevant and poignant in the decade since. I think a great deal about what it means to live with hope and sincerity in the age of cynicism, about how we can continue standing at the gates of hope as we’re being bombarded with news of hopeless acts of violence, as we’re confronted daily with what Marcus Aurelius called the “meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.” ![]()
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