Jul 2024
“In this extraordinary book … Solomon examines the experience of parents raising exceptional children. I have often returned to it over the years, reading it for its depth of understanding and its illumination of the particulars that make up the fabric of family.” — Meg Wolitzer
Apr 2021
Andrew Solomon joins New York Times Book Review Podcast host Pamela Paul to discuss Katie Booth’s new biography of Alexander Graham Bell, The Invention of Miracles.
Apr 2021
“Part of what’s compelling about these books is that the enormous beauty that’s in them constitutes a form of hope. So on the one hand, that people die, and on the other hand, that people live so richly in that instant before they die.”
Oct 2020
“I think this has been an occasion for people to withdraw from hectic lives, and to focus quite tightly on the people whom they are closest to, including, in many instances, family.”
Jul 2018
The double-height library is Mr. Solomon’s favorite room. “It really speaks to who I am,” he said. “Books are sort of my life.”
Jun 2016
Andrew Solomon discusses his new book, “Far & Away”; Noah Hawley talks about “Before the Fall”; Marjorie Ingall opines on the season’s new YA novels, and Parul Sehgal and Gregory Cowles on what people are reading.
Feb 2016
In this week’s New York Times Book Review Podcast, Andrew Solomon discusses five new books about death and dying.
May 2015
Story by Andrew Solomon. Photograph by Carla van de Puttelaar.
May 2015
On this week’s podcast, Andrew Solomon talks about Oliver Sacks’s new memoir, “On the Move.”
May 2015
“The defense of people murdered for their exercise of free speech is at the heart of what PEN stands for. So is the unfettered expression of opposing viewpoints.”
