Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed a hundred pounds of ripening apricots, which lay on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer[...]

Reporting from the frontlines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents: wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.[...]

Konstnären Yves Klein som tar sitt berömda "språng in i tomrummet" på en Parisgata 1960. Nybyggardottern Mary Jemison som väljer att tillbringa sitt långa liv hos de senecaindianer som adopterade henne sedan hon blivit bortrövad när hon var femton. Den musikaliskt begåvade Marine som genoml[...]