[Unedited] Rebecca Solnit with Krista Tippett

Published: March 19, 2020, 6 p.m.

\u201cWhen all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers\u2019 keepers,\u201d Rebecca Solnit writes. \u201cAnd that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even amidst death, chaos, fear, and loss.\u201d In this moment of global crisis, we\u2019re returning to the conversations we\u2019re longing to hear again and finding useful right now. A singular writer and thinker, Solnit celebrates the unpredictable and incalculable events that so often redeem our lives, both solitary and public. She searches for the hidden, transformative histories inside and after events we chronicle as disasters in places like post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.