Gay and Depressed
Not a day goes by that I don’t have unsolicited correspondence from someone who is depressed and needs help, or from someone who is gay and suffering for it.
Aug 2017
Articles by Andrew Solomon: All Articles
Apr 2017
Families have evolved. Now language must too
We need new words for new kinds of relatedness, ones that don’t simply hark back to traditional roles
Feb 2017
Robert Couturier Revitalizes Andrew Solomon’s New York City Townhouse
The squalor was almost unimaginable.
Feb 2017
Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America
The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.
Jan 2017
Diving Into Hell
Merkin is capable of being at once melodramatic and finely nuanced; she has so many good phrases about depression that it’s hard to choose among them.
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.
Dec 2016
Sri Lanka Is Ready for Its Close-Up
Just a few short years after the end of its brutal civil war, Sri Lanka--with its rambling temple ruins, leafy tea plantations, and wide golden beaches--is bursting with ...
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