Angstalgia
Feelings of acute nostalgia for a time to which you would dread to return.
Feb 2020
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Appeared in New York
Oct 2018
The $2,000 Kente Cloth
Pink, green, yellow, and white, it fairly glittered on the counter... I knew that it and I had a future together, though I didn't yet know what it was.
Oct 2016
Gay Rights Happened Slowly; Trans Rights, All at Once
As one trans activist said to me, “Trans is who you are; sexuality is whom you bounce it off of,” and people can accept who someone is more readily than what someone ...
May 2008
The Autism Rights Movement
A new wave of activists wants to celebrate atypical brain function as a positive identity, not a disability. Opponents call them dangerously deluded.
Feb 2007
Bush on the Couch
One reads in Bush’s face and in his speeches an inability to conceive of other people as fully human.
Oct 2005
The Blue and the Gray
Review of "Lincoln’s Melancholy," by Joshua Wolf Shenk.
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