Articles by Andrew Solomon:

Oct 2011

Revitalizing Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro is becoming a standard-bearer of a new kind of social development, a transformation of the long intractable poverty of the favelas.

Jan 2010

A Trip Through Peru

Exploring the wilds of the Amazon, the high-altitude waters of Titicaca, and the mysteries of Machu Picchu, T+L revels in the sheer, exuberant abundance of Peru.

Nov 2008

Adventures in Antarctica

It would have been worth noting, when we signed up for the “Nimrod Centennial Expedition” to Antarctica, that Sir Ernest Shackleton’s pole-seeking Nimrod expedition ...

Jan 2008

Madagascar: A Safari Tour

There is nothing dangerous or threatening in Madagascar. On mainland African safaris you have to stay in a vehicle, because lions will eat you and hippos will trample you ...

Oct 2005

A Culinary Tour of China

It is hard to understand how the Chinese have retained some semblance of sanity in a country so utterly transformed, because the China of today is as dissimilar to the China ...

Jul 2005

I Came, I Saw, I Haggled

When I walk through the memory palace in which I live, my past seems to be with me.

Sep 2003

A Silver Ball

One guest arrived with a mysterious silver key, another, a tiny silver archer’s bow. At F&W’s silver anniversary party, silver took many forms—from the ...

Aug 2003

Song of Solomons

How often do you find a South Pacific island nation with your name on it? And how often does it turn out to be just what Herman Melville said it would?

Jun 2002

Museum Without Walls in Japan

On a remote Japanese island, an art collection spills out of a Tadao Ando building onto hillsides and docks—and into your hotel room.

Jan 2002

The Kitchen Shrink

When anxiety strikes, you can try talk therapy—or you can try kitchen therapy. A writer who’s done both explains how preparing a stew or roasting a chicken helps ...