Jun 2022
For the New Yorker, Solomon writes about the alarmingly high rate of youth suicide, why it’s on the rise, and why it’s so difficult to prevent. Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu spoke with Solomon about this issue.
May 2022
The tendency of bullies to be desperate was one of the real revelations.
Apr 2022
“Often people who commit homicide are expressing their own despair, their own internal mental health problems, as well as expressing anger and hatred and bias.”
Mar 2022
“It’s easy to legislate against a group of people in the abstract and hard to face up to the individual human cost of doing so. So we have to bring up the next generation of activists who will fight for rights that I believe can be attained.”
Mar 2022
It is not easy to overthrow an oppressive leadership. It’s possible, but it’s not easy at all. People are afraid. And they are rightly afraid. Putin is a bully who remembers the image of Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole in the ground and Gaddafi being dragged out of a sewer.
Dec 2021
Andrew Solomon joins MSNBC host Alicia Menendez and Futuro Media founder Maria Hinojosa to discuss the movement to ban books on human sexuality, race and American history, and the profoundly worrisome rise of authoritarian sentiment in the United States.
Dec 2021
Andrew Solomon’s bestselling book about diverse families, Far From the Tree, has been targeted by a Texas state lawmaker. Solomon says the effort to blacklist and ban books shows “we are in the period of backlash”.
Jun 2021
Jemma Birrell of Tablo Publishing interviews Andrew Solomon on the body of his work, what he has been working on and the books he might write in the future.
Jun 2021
Andrew Solomon, Juan Acosta and host Paul Gilmartin discuss mental health advocacy, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and how these issues overlap.
Jun 2021
Lucy Kalanithi and Andrew Solomon explore what becomes possible when we bust the myth of the ideal nuclear family.
