Under Pressure
Review of ‘All Joy and No Fun,’ by Jennifer Senior.
Jan 2014
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Marriage & Family
Jun 2013
Falling in Love with Marriage
This fresh social justice is infusing the very air, and I am breathing it as though it were a new oxygen.
Apr 2013
One Mother Lost Both Her Children in Boston
The spectacle of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar is in many ways odious, but the spectacle of their mother is heartbreaking.
Apr 2013
Medical Progress, Social Progress, and Legal Regression
Choice strengthens families no matter what choice they make.
Dec 2012
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Polite curiosity about one's children is nothing new. But when you're gay parents, you must prepare to be interrogated.
Oct 2012
How Do You Raise a Prodigy?
Prodigiousness looks from a distance like silver, but it comes with banks of clouds; genius can be as bewildering and hazardous as a disability.
Aug 2012
The Legitimate Children of Rape
Rape is a permanent damage; it leaves not scars, but open wounds.
May 2012
A Birthday and Two Weddings
If we countenance one form of bias, we have no platform from which to fight any other.
Feb 2011
Meet My Real Modern Family
I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.
Jan 2009
More Perfect Unions
To many gays, marriage is the last frontier of discrimination. But Obama's election is a reassuring sign that we, too, shall overcome someday soon.
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