Doom Scrolling
The rate of suicide among young Americans has risen sharply. Parents and lawmakers alike are blaming the addictive draw and disturbing content of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, ...
Oct 2024
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Appeared in New Yorker
Apr 2022
The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide
Every suicide creates a vacuum. Those left behind fill it with stories that aspire to rationalize their ultimately unfathomable plight.
Mar 2021
The Shape of Love
From opposite sides of the culture, parallel campaigns for legal recognition may soon make multiple-partner marriages as unremarkable as same-sex marriages.
May 2020
Obituary for the Analyst
In the course of twenty-five years, Dr. F helped me find something to hold on to: not only an imaginable future but also a known past.
Jun 2018
Preventable Tragedies
Get support. If you are thinking of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
Feb 2017
Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America
The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.
Jun 2016
A Perilous Nationalism at Brexit
It is an ostrich point of view not wholly unfamiliar in America: by refusing to look at the rest of the globe, one forestalls seeing oneself.
Mar 2015
The Middle of Things
The deeper you look into other souls—and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that—the clearer people’s inherent dignity becomes.
Sep 2014
Depression and Pregnancy: The Terrifying Dilemma
It is not helpful when the complexity of the decision is belittled.
Aug 2014
Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness
It often seems as if those who are most exuberant experience despair in proportion to their joy.
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