Myanmar’s Moment
Myanmar boasts a fierce, proud, and kind population who will go to almost any lengths to make you feel welcome.
Nov 2014
Articles by Andrew Solomon: All Articles
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.
Sep 2014
Identity or Behavior: A Moral and Medical Basis for LGBTQ Rights
The rights of minority groups should not be predicated on their lack of choice.
Sep 2014
Depression and Pregnancy: The Terrifying Dilemma
It is not helpful when the complexity of the decision is belittled.
Aug 2014
Depression is a Disease of Loneliness
A lack of friends can suck someone into solitude – sharing the language of affection could help to ease the pain.
Aug 2014
Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness
It often seems as if those who are most exuberant experience despair in proportion to their joy.
Jul 2014
Gay, Jewish, Mentally Ill, and a Sponsor of Gypsies in Romania
The author returns to Romania, whence his grandparents fled pogroms and poverty.
May 2014
The Stolen Generations
The fact that so many Indigenous children continue to be taken into care is deeply concerning – but there are no simple answers.
May 2014
Welcome to My Modern Family
My persistent dark fantasy was that I would have children and wouldn't like them and would be stuck with them for the rest of my life.
May 2014
Books That Changed Me
I think I fell in love with language the day my father first read to me from the Rootabaga Stories.
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