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                    Maria Popova @MariaPopova
                  
                  
                    
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                      2022
                    
                  
                
                - Curated in Favorite Books of 2021
 
This poetic gesture with political roots inspirits the uncommonly wonderful Orwell’s Roses. Like any Rebecca Solnit book, this too is a landmass of layered aboutness beneath the surface story — a book stratified with art and politics, beauty and ecology, mortality, and what gives our lives meaning.