The $2,000 Kente Cloth
Pink, green, yellow, and white, it fairly glittered on the counter... I knew that it and I had a future together, though I didn't yet know what it was.
Oct 2018
Articles by Andrew Solomon: All Articles
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.
Jul 2018
The Newsletter from Andrew Solomon: Far From the Tree Documentary Opens Nationwide July 20
The film of Far from the Tree is its own creation, capturing and extending the real message of the book. It’s intimate and humane and in some places funny.
Jul 2018
The immigration crisis is about the devaluation of love
The separation of immigrant families from their children is not merely a disgusting failure of sympathy by the American government, but also a surefire way to break thousands ...
Jun 2018
Preventable Tragedies
Get support. If you are thinking of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
Mar 2018
Coming of Age as Performance Art: An Outsider in 1970s Japan
Ian Buruma’s memoir, “A Tokyo Romance,” recaptures his youthful experiences in the avant-garde film and theater world of the postwar city.
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.
Nov 2017
Perfectly Normal
How conflating ‘ideal’ and ‘average’ spawned flawed concepts of identity.
Oct 2017
Fatal Genes
To what extent is information about an unpreventable genetic disease that has not yet caused any symptoms a gift and to what extent is it a burden?
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