The subtitle of this book is "A History of Walking," and that's where my biggest gripe comes with Ms. Solnit. If we, the readers, hold too tightly to that appellation, the book becomes something of a ...

1. In her acknowledgments for “Wanderlust,” Rebecca Solnit points out that “walking has a multitude of amateurs.” She isn’t one of them, as her book attests. While its subtitle describes it as a ...

Theater Review | 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking' By Claudia La Rocco Wanderlust is a good impulse for the Soho Think Tank to follow right now; after 16 years of cultivating some of the city’s most ...

In her teens and early 20s, before she launched a career as a writer and cultural historian, Rebecca Solnit was religiously devoted to punk. As she hung around suburban garages, watching her friends ...

“You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite,” the author Rebecca Solnit said on “The Interview.” “You get it by being strong.” On “The Interview,” the writer ...

The opening scene of Rebecca Solnit’s essay “Men Explain Things to Me” is, by now, a familiar one, not only because it’s repeated so often whenever Solnit is written about, but because it describes a ...

The spirit of 20th-century America can be largely defined by a citizen's ability—or, more aptly, desire—to get into an automobile and drive somewhere. Modern people aren't confined to their homes or ...