Preventable Tragedies
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Jun 2018
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Appeared in New Yorker
Feb 2017
Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America
The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.
Jun 2016
A Perilous Nationalism at Brexit
It is an ostrich point of view not wholly unfamiliar in America: by refusing to look at the rest of the globe, one forestalls seeing oneself.
Mar 2015
The Middle of Things
The deeper you look into other souls—and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that—the clearer people’s inherent dignity becomes.
Sep 2014
Depression and Pregnancy: The Terrifying Dilemma
It is not helpful when the complexity of the decision is belittled.
Aug 2014
Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness
It often seems as if those who are most exuberant experience despair in proportion to their joy.
Jul 2014
Gay, Jewish, Mentally Ill, and a Sponsor of Gypsies in Romania
The author returns to Romania, whence his grandparents fled pogroms and poverty.
Apr 2014
Honey Maid and the Business of Love
Andrew Solomon looks at Honey Maid's new radical ad campaign and how the company responded to the negative reactions it sparked.
Mar 2014
The Reckoning
The father of the Sandy Hook killer searches for answers.
Sep 2013
An Avoidable Tragedy
The story coming out of D.C. is of a man at war with himself and with the world around him, and unfortunately that latter war carried the day.
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