Points of Entry: Writers on the Border
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Jul 2019
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Literature & Free Expression
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.
Dec 2017
I didn’t know then that I was gay, or that Elizabeth Bishop was
No other book has captured the need for displacement as Questions of Travel does.
Oct 2017
Essential Tips for Aspiring Writers
If you can give language to experiences previously starved for it, you can make the world a better place.
Feb 2017
Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America
The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.
Jan 2017
The First Speech
Suggestions for the President-Elect to consider for inclusion in his inaugural address.
Jan 2017
The New Resistance: Inauguration Day
Freedom is a verb. It is something you live and achieve, that you must relive and achieve again every day.
Jan 2017
Resisting the New Order
Andrew Solomon speaks at PEN America WRITERS RESIST, held on the steps of the New York Public Library, January 15, 2017.
Dec 2016
Secret prisons: a vulnerability masquerading as a defense
A radical talk about our commitment to decency and human rights.
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