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Adam M. Sowards

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Calling Things Truly

28JanuaryAdam M. Sowardshistoryhistory, privilege, rebecca solnit, stories, truth

I’m not sure any writer stimulates me like Rebecca Solnit. Her dead-aim truth telling and her exquisite control of language serves up so many reminders and inspirations. In “Silence Is Broken,” an early essay in The Mother of All Questions, Solnit writes: The task of calling things by their true names, of telling the truth

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