Art in Jeopardy
To show art only to the peoples whose antecedents made it is to deprive the world of its variety and its collective history. The history of culture is catholic and international, ...
May 2025
Articles by Andrew Solomon: All Articles
Oct 2024
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, ...
Jul 2024
Teenage Wasteland
Review of The Anxious Generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness, by Jonathan Haidt.
May 2024
Influencing from Within: A Moral Lesson
Zhao is a servant (groom) who looks after the state (horse). He does not take pleasure in doing so, but he recognizes the moral imperatives of his own competence, the obligation ...
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 ...
May 2023
The Covenant of Water: Abraham Verghese’s Sweeping New Fable of Family and Medicine
“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.
Jan 2023
Throuples aren’t immoral – and neither is my own ‘scandalous’ marriage
Why should we think it shocking for someone to love multiple others? We don’t restrict any other relationship to a binary.
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 2022
How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health
“I thought I couldn’t remain in the box that was my body anymore — and yet I had to.”
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