"Writing about Stevie Wonder, Willis noticed that he had 'the power to make optimism . . . marvelously credible.' So does she. But her hope was never starry-eyed. See the last lines of an essay on the Velvet Underground. 'I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism,' she wrote. 'I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal. But I guess that I just don't know.'"
Carlene Bauer in The New York Times reviews The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz.
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