The First New York Pride March Was an Act of ‘Desperate Courage’
It wasn’t always feathers, floats and celebrities.
Jun 2019
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Appeared in New York Times
Aug 2018
If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be?
“Obedience to Authority” relates how easily adults abdicate responsibility, and illuminates the horror that ensues when we placidly do as we are told.
Jul 2018
My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film
Books require that people recount their emotions; documentaries require that people bare the same emotions in front of a film crew.
Mar 2018
Coming of Age as Performance Art: An Outsider in 1970s Japan
Ian Buruma’s memoir, “A Tokyo Romance,” recaptures his youthful experiences in the avant-garde film and theater world of the postwar city.
Jan 2017
Diving Into Hell
Merkin is capable of being at once melodramatic and finely nuanced; she has so many good phrases about depression that it’s hard to choose among them.
Oct 2016
Mental Illness Is Not A Horror Show
It’s the proximity of mental illness rather than its obscurity that makes it so scary. But it should be scary in a “fix the broken care system” way or in a “figure ...
Aug 2016
Jun 2016
‘My First Gay Bar’: 25 Coming-of-Age Stories
Jane Lynch, Alexander Wang, Rosie O'Donnell and others reflect on what gay bars mean to them, in the aftermath of the shooting in Orlando.
Feb 2016
The Good Death, When Breath Becomes Air and More
Life would feel short even if we could expect to live two centuries.
Oct 2015
The Myth of the ‘Autistic Shooter’
Failing to intuit certain aspects of other people’s inner experience does not equate to disdain for human life.
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