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His prose sparkles with insights and captivating description, whether he is observing camels in Mongolia... or eating his way through China.
Jun 2016
His prose sparkles with insights and captivating description, whether he is observing camels in Mongolia... or eating his way through China.
Jun 2016
We read Andrew Solomon not just for his scrupulous research on a range of subjects, but also for the pleasure of his gorgeous prose.
May 2016
Solomon’s fans, readers of travel literature, and students of long-form journalism will welcome this addition.
May 2016
His writing is never less than deeply perceptive writing, and wonderfully humane.
May 2016
Solomon gives us a startling and insightful view of change-in-the-making over the years, while ever reminding us of our common humanity.
May 2016
Solomon's reporting from far-flung places is surprisingly powerful, a bighearted response to a divisive era.
Apr 2016
A lifetime of travel writing by Solomon includes a wide array of adventures, all wonderfully observed.
Apr 2016
He has gifts of compassion and close attention that make people keen to confide in him.
Apr 2016
Far and Away is a reminder that, although foreign reporting isn’t easy, and that American journalists probably get places wrong as often as they get them right, deep work is worth doing and worth paying for, both to encourage cultural exchange and because a skilled writer who reports at length may create literature.
Apr 2016
The meaty dispatches are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winner’s globe-trotting adventures.