Audio: KCRW: Life Examined: Is digital addiction fueling a teen suicide crisis?
Life Examined host Andrea Brody and Andrew Solomon discuss Andrew’s recent article in The New Yorker, “Doom Scrolling: Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?”
Dec 2024
Life Examined host Andrea Brody and Andrew Solomon discuss Andrew’s recent article in The New Yorker, “Doom Scrolling: Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?”
Jul 2024
“In this extraordinary book … Solomon examines the experience of parents raising exceptional children. I have often returned to it over the years, reading it for its depth of understanding and its illumination of the particulars that make up the fabric of family.” — Meg Wolitzer
May 2024
In this episode of Information Radio: MB with Marcy Markusa, mental health columnist Mark Henick talks about how our ambient environmental soundscape affects our mental health. Includes a portion of an interview with Andrew Solomon.
Apr 2024
Andrew Solomon’s keynote address at a meeting on mental health of children and youth, sponsored by the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Qatar, Romania and Kuwait, with the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund.
Mar 2024
The American Academy of Arts & Letters has announced that librettist Justin Warner, composer Robert Maggio and lyricist Kristin Maloney have won a 2024 Richard Rodgers Award for Far From the Tree, a musical adaptation of Andrew Solomon’s 2012 bestseller.
Jan 2024
The symposium featured presentations by Columbia experts on new innovations and breakthroughs in depression and suicide research and treatment, as well as the lived experiences of individuals living with depression and mental illness.
Oct 2023
Equality Forum has honored Andrew Solomon as a “Gay Icon” for 2023 LGBT History Month.
Oct 2023
Andrew Solomon talks with Science Writers in New York co-chair David Levine about the new book that he is writing on the rise in suicide