Video: 2018 Nantucket Book Festival: Andrew Solomon on Illness and Identity
Co-sponsored by Fairwinds — Nantucket’s Counseling Center.
Aug 2018
Press: Lectures & Talks
Aug 2018
Audio: 5×15: Facing Down the Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon describes the experience of facing down depression. Recorded at 5×15, The Tabernacle, London, February 29, 2016.
May 2018
Video: Andrew Solomon at UAB: 2018 Ireland Visiting Scholar Lecture
In this lecture, Andrew distinguishes between love and acceptance, illustrated by the lives of families with exceptional children who are very different from their parents.
Oct 2017
Video: Elyn Saks & Andrew Solomon Talk About Mental Health
Author Elyn Saks and Andrew Solomon speak about mental health and their award-winning books.
Oct 2017
Video: Art as Activism: An Evening with Ai Weiwei
Literature is a place where we can construct new realities together, but unless the literature available to us is representative, those new realities threaten to reconstruct the prejudice and discrimination of the world we live in. — Ai Weiwei
Sep 2017
Video: Miami Book Fair: Depression & Anxiety, Examined
At the 2016 Miami Book Fair, Andrew Solomon discusses depression and anxiety with Scott Stossel, author of “My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind.”
May 2017
Video: TEDxExeter: How Open Borders Make Us Safe
In this presentation from TEDxExeter 2017, Andrew Solomon argues that discovering other countries is the best way of finding ourselves, while ignorance of other cultures gives rise to fear, suspicion and war.
May 2017
Video: How Travel Can Change the World
Andrew Solomon speaks at a World Affairs Council of Philadelphia Young Friends Event, May 15, 2017.
May 2017
Video: Portraying Gay Male Life Today
How are today’s realities and paradoxes shifting what gay writers and activists take on? Writers and artists Ali Asgar,Édouard Louis, Garth Greenwell and Andrew Solomon explore how gay life, gay men and gay culture are changing and how artists are responding in their work.
Apr 2017
Video: 2017 NYSAIS Conference Keynote Address
Andrew Solomon discusses the means by which families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities and how these unusual situations can be invested with love.
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