Articles by Andrew Solomon:

Prodigies are able to function at an advanced adult level in some domain before age 12. “Prodigy” derives from the Latin “prodigium,” a monster that violates the ...

The relationship between rape and pregnancy has been a topic of highly politicized debate since long before Todd Akin’s comments on “legitimate rape,” Paul Ryan’s ...

An internship at the Costume Institute under the oracular Diana Vreeland introduced the author to the art of extravagant gestures.

Bush, like his mother, has an almost inhuman ability to identify his own advantage without the slightest regard to its cost to others. One reads in Lincoln’s diaries of ...

Amy Tan is among our great storytellers. In each of her previous novels, she has seduced readers with the intimate magic of her tale. In “The Joy Luck Club” ...

I have never thought of myself as an extremist. I have lived happily at the middle left of mainstream American politics, which is equivalent to the middle right of British ...

A survey released on Thursday reports that reading for pleasure is way down in America among every group — old and young, wealthy and poor, educated and uneducated, ...

Bawer’s… approach is comparable to devoting half a review of “Anna Karenina” to Tolstoy’s views on collecting wild mushrooms.

Keith Jarrett is attracting a new audience, thanks to his classical recordings. But he still considers himself the conscience of jazz, and he doesn’t hesitate to tell ...

Nobody could fail to be impressed by Orlando Figes’ A People’s Tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924 (Jonathan Cape) – but 924 weighty pages don’t ...