After walking home, "Wanderlust" author Rebecca Solnit has 60 more steps to climb to her attic apartment in the Panhandle. Here Solnit, 48, wrote her 12th book, "A Paradise Built in Hell: The ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This slim volume, to quote the author's own reflections on the quincentennial of Columbus's discovery of America, is "a zigzag trail of encounters, reactions, and realizations." Solnit, recent winner ...

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 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 ...