“Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency, because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer that future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. Hope just means another world is possible, not promised, not guaranteed.”

An important and poignant read, at any moment but especially in this political moment. Two decades have passed since Solnit first published this book and yet many of the truisms, and indeed much of the political landscape being built at the time of publication is still with us today.