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Articles by Andrew Solomon: Food, Travel & Design


Feb 2024

Pastoral Poetry

When Andrew Solomon and his husband decided to trade in city life for the charms of the American countryside, a down-at-heel house called Marienruh seemed the perfect blank ...

Jan 2022

How We Renovated a Storied Estate During Lockdown

As the Covid months wore on, the place took on the feeling that places have only when they are genuinely inhabited, the character no house has unless its owners can find ...

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.

Jul 2019

Traveling Through Jordan’s Historic Ruins, Red Dunes, and Dead Sea

Jordan has all the colorful history, layered archeology, and warm hospitality of its neighboring countries, with none of the turmoil.

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.

Aug 2017

It’s Never Too Early to Travel with Your Kids

To be a responsible world citizen, you need to understand how wide and beautiful the world is, and how many kinds of both pain and great joy it contains.

Feb 2017

Robert Couturier Revitalizes Andrew Solomon’s New York City Townhouse

The squalor was almost unimaginable.

Dec 2016

Sri Lanka Is Ready for Its Close-Up

Just a few short years after the end of its brutal civil war, Sri Lanka--with its rambling temple ruins, leafy tea plantations, and wide golden beaches--is bursting with ...

Oct 2016

Travel must be available for all to counter the closed-mindedness of Brexit

I believe that we should consider travel not a superfluity only for those with cash and leisure, but a part of every good citizen’s rights and responsibilities.

Sep 2016

Against the Wall

How have walls come to be so popular in a time when globalism would seem to be knocking down walls?