'When all are levelled by the literal levelling of their homes, people share whatever is saveable: clothes, food, and comfort, and others rush to provide help.' Photo: Book cover of A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit
A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit
Author: Rebecca Solnit. Review by Helen Porter
by Helen Porter
24th September 2021
Ten years before Rutger Bregman’s Humankind (see review 14 August 2020) Rebecca Solnit pre-figured his view of human nature as fundamentally kind and co-operative by analysing our response to catastrophe. It chimes well with our desire to recognise ‘that of God in everyone’.
