‘Orwell’s Roses’ centers on the tensions between beauty and labor, joy and suffering

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Rebecca Solnit’s latest is a deeply political collection of interlinked essays, of which George Orwell is a part but not the whole; one of its joys is its unexpected turns from one topic to the next.

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Rebecca Solnit’s latest is a deeply political collection of interlinked essays, of which George Orwell is a part but not the whole; one of its joys is its unexpected turns from one topic to the next.