Rebecca Solnit

The Guide: CMAT, Fontaines DC, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end

May 17th-23rd: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Tara Brandel: ‘I am always analysing power dynamics in performance. Who holds privilege? How is it expressed?’

The Croí Glan choreographer explains why she believes in the power of dance to be an agent of change

In Defence of Witches: a rousing feminist argument

Book review: French feminist urges modern women to consider the term ‘witch’

Reworked Brussels metro map celebrates Irish women

Constance Markievicz and Mary Robinson in roll-call of women who have helped shape Europe

Laura Veirs: ‘I had a feminist awakening’

After her 20-year relationship ended, the US songwriter experienced a creative and personal rebirth

Why are men still explaining things to women?

Mansplaining illuminates a much deeper problem than the bore of patronising monologues

Policing the borderlands of fiction and non-fiction

For serious writers, invention in reportage remains taboo

How to be a good man: what I learned from a month reading feminist classics

A year after the Harvey Weinstein revelations, a professor decided to do some deep reading

The dreaded question: ‘So, are you guys thinking about No 2?’

‘Actually, no. We spent the last two years mourning Nos 2, 3 and 4’

What future has the essay in a social media age?

Unthinkable: Despite today’s fashion for talking in tweets, there’s life in the old art form

Embrace ‘holistic anarchy’ and lose your anxiety, guilt and fear

Daniel Pinchbeck’s new book offers a revolutionary view of how to live

Elbow - Little Fictions album review: Some agony along with the ecstasy

Fast and furious: the perils of a spinning class

Exertional rhabdomyolysis – ER – can be caused by intense exercise and end in ER

Review: Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit

A revolt championing the cause of women