Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsI’ve just mainlined Rebecca Solnit’s latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There, in two sittings. It’s such a stirring, sinewy antidote to despair that I want to prescribe it to everyone. Solnit stares unflinchingly at the facts of our age – Trump, Gaza, climate catastrophe, the assault on truth – and argues for the power of uncertainty as opposed to foregone conclusions. Yes, the future looks bleak, but that does not mean we are doomed. Only giving up guarantees that. Instead, persevere. Continue reading...