No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven TerrainIn the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty. 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 on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering

fighting in the jungle and keeping his men's spirits up - even as the struggle started to fail

about life itself

an architect

As John Tinnell shows in this thought-provoking narrative

Christianity

By slowing down time in the unique way photography allows

Institutions matter for economic development

exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of culture

author of American Midnight and King Leopold’s Ghost

Angela Carter

is his most penetrating analysis of America's racial divide and an impassioned call to "end the racial nightmare

Written with a light touch and with a wry sense of humour