Silence, Shouting & Slaughter
I wouldn't write if I didn't believe in the power of words for good, and if one accepts that capacity, one must also recognize their potential to inflict damage. Words break ...
Jan 2015
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Miscellaneous
Nov 2014
Assisted Suicide, Myanmar’s Moment and LGBTQ Rights
Committing both to effecting social change and to being fully honest entails entering a state of permanent internal conflict.
Oct 2014
Welcome to The Newsletter from Andrew Solomon
I continue to wonder about freedom, about how anyone can achieve the wide embrace of human diversity that is implied in Emma Lazarus’s words.
May 2007
In Praise of Women
It seems like a cheat to hook up with your own sex, and make friends only with your own sex, too. It is walking away from half the world.
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
Prudent Fitness: A Panegyric
Dièry acted from the start as though I were dormant where I had thought I was dead.
Oct 2004
The Loneliness of a Liberal US Jew
It is an exercise in humiliation, being taken as representative of positions that I abhor.
Apr 2004
Dandyism
What is the purpose of men’s clothing of style, be that style extravagant or controlled?
Jan 1999
The Conversation
Authors Andrew Solomon and Abraham Verghese discuss intimate trust, earned and unearned, in friendship, family, love and sex.
Apr 1992
Downtown’s Newest Drug
Nothing I have encountered before begins to approach the emotional, intellectual and physical exhibitionism of this production.
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