What Happens When You’re Disabled but Nobody Can Tell?
On the disabilities that ramps and reserved parking spots don’t address.
Jul 2020
Articles by Andrew Solomon: All Articles
May 2020
Obituary for the Analyst
In the course of twenty-five years, Dr. F helped me find something to hold on to: not only an imaginable future but also a known past.
Apr 2020
Keeping Our Heads While Keeping Our Distance
My advice to everyone is to sustain human contact whether you feel like it or not.
Apr 2020
For those of us with depression, coronavirus is a double crisis
I am in the sizeable part of the population who must seek to distinguish between ordinary fear and the beginnings of a breakdown.
Apr 2020
When the Pandemic Leaves Us Alone, Anxious and Depressed
We are in a dual crisis of physical and mental health. But there are ways to head off breakdowns.
Feb 2020
Angstalgia
Feelings of acute nostalgia for a time to which you would dread to return.
Nov 2019
In defense of Harold Bloom
He was the best teacher I ever knew: visionary, generous of spirit and willing to place his students’ strivings on the same level as his own insights.
Oct 2019
How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race
He epitomizes a conundrum, viewing himself as part of multiple societies to which he has incomplete claims.
Sep 2019
The Dignity of Disabled Lives
The burden of being perceived as different persists. The solution to this problem is community.
Jul 2019
Traveling Through Jordan’s Historic Ruins, Red Dunes, and Dead Sea
Jordan has all the colorful history, layered archeology, and warm hospitality of its neighboring countries, with none of the turmoil.
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