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The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

byRebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit gathers essays about living through political, environmental, and personal upheaval without surrendering imagination or hope. She considers disasters, movements, landscapes, memory, and the uncertain intervals when an old order is ending but a new one has not yet taken form. Rather than treating hope as optimism, Solnit presents it as an openness to possibilities whose outcomes cannot be guaranteed. The collection asks readers to recognize endings honestly while remaining alert to solidarity, invention, and action—the beginnings that can emerge when familiar assumptions and institutions no longer hold.

Publisher

Haymarket Books

Publication date

2026-02-03

Format

Paperback

Pages

160

ISBN

9798888904510