The prolific non-fiction writer returns to her favourite themes of hope and uncertainty in her cheerful new book, ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’. In a conversation with Hannah Ewens, she discusses why fiction is overrated, why new age spirituality is a hoax and how a functional social welfare state would encourage women to have children
Rebecca Solnit: ‘Fiction was always treated as the most important, literary, aspirational goal – f*** that’ … from the Independent Hannah Ewens
