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.
Dec 2017
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Literature & Free Expression
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.
Aug 2016
May 2016
The Book That Made Me
Bishop's words are compressed, meaning squeezed into every phrase. Some poems are humorous; some are quietly agonising; all are deeply wise and subtly compassionate. They ...
May 2016
JK Rowling Was Right
Freedom of speech cannot be constrained to freedom to express one’s own point of view.
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