No straight road takes you there essays for uneven terrain
"Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with one about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, n...
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Chicago, Illinois :
Haymarket Books,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- In praise of the indirect, the unpredictable, the immeasurable, the slow, and the subtle
- Visions. A truce with the trees
- Sky full of forests
- On letting go of certainty in a story that never ends
- Tortoise at the mayfly party
- In praise of the meander
- Insurrectionary aunthood
- Revisions. Despair is a luxury
- On not meeting Nazis halfway
- Against centrism and its biases
- In the shadow of Silicon Valley
- Masculinity as radical selfishness
- Abortion is an economic issue
- Toward a democracy of voices
- The storykiller and his sentence
- Feminism has just begun
- More visions. Deep time versus short term
- Changing the climate story
- Climate of abundance
- The great transformation
- Hope on far horizons
- Credo.
