Articles by Andrew Solomon:

The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world.

Freedom from Muammar Qaddafi and his family is very good news for Libya; indeed, his demise is good news for the world. He was both evil and effective, which is a worrying ...

As rebel forces enter Tripoli, the big question is what will happen to the Qaddafi regime. Most of the pundits expected Qaddafi to go months ago. It looked as though the ...

Muammar Qaddafi’s march forward following his avowed acceptance of a United Nations-mandated ceasefire provoked surprise in much of the civilized world. It’s not that ...

It seemed unlikely that Libya, sandwiched between regime collapse in Tunisia and regime collapse in Egypt, could be untouched by the movement. Qaddafi has had dominion over ...

The compassionate release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, has been roundly condemned ...

In sparsely populated Libya, old buildings have never had to be destroyed to make way for new ones, and what has been abandoned is soon covered with Saharan sand carried ...

Here’s a story they tell in Libya. Three contestants are in a race to run five hundred metres carrying a bag of rats.

The reopening of the National Gallery in Kabul in February took place in the dark. The electricity was out again, a casualty of war, and no one could get the gallery’s ...

In the first North Asian Biennial, work from China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan raises issues of national identity and tradition.