Rebecca Solnit has made sort of a cottage industry of republishing in slim volumes essays previously published elsewhere, packaged around a theme. As a museum professional, the storytelling theme is of particular interest to me, but this book is really only tangentially connected to the theme. Solnit proposes that previously unheard narratives—of women and people of color—have recently moved to the center of public life and that people in power (mostly white men) are moving to shut them down. Her aim is both to life these stories up and to point out how they have been silenced. This is a fresh and interesting idea; I only wish the book had lived up to it.