The Covenant of Water: Abraham Verghese’s Sweeping New Fable of Family and Medicine
“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.
May 2023
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Appeared in New York Times
Mar 2022
How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health
“I thought I couldn’t remain in the box that was my body anymore — and yet I had to.”
Nov 2021
My Book Was Censored in China. Now It’s Blacklisted — in Texas
The Texas document constitutes a cynical electoral stratagem by a bigoted politician in a beleaguered state.
Jun 2021
Can Travel Be Fun Again?
For many people, after more than a year of the pandemic, travel feels like something to dread. But it can still mean liberation.
Apr 2021
Devoted to the Deaf, Did Alexander Graham Bell Do More Harm Than Good?
Immune to the beauty of sign language, Bell never saw deafness as anything more than a deficit.
Jul 2020
What Happens When You’re Disabled but Nobody Can Tell?
On the disabilities that ramps and reserved parking spots don’t address.
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.
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.
Jun 2019
The First New York Pride March Was an Act of ‘Desperate Courage’
It wasn’t always feathers, floats and celebrities.
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