Video: Celebrating Pride Month: A Conversation with Andrew Solomon
A talk and Q&A with members of Morrison & Foerster’s Diversity + Inclusion Group.
Jun 2023
Press: Audio & Video
Feb 2023
Audio: TED Radio Hour: Lessons on love and acceptance from today’s dynamic families
Andrew Solomon and TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi discuss and challenge the concept of what an “ideal” family looks like.
Jan 2023
Video: Amanpour: America’s ‘center tends to shift towards justice’
Andrew Solomon speaks with Christiane Amanpour about identity, mental health, and social progress in America, and explains why he finds hope “simply in the lives that people are leading.”
Nov 2022
Audio: The Ask Beatty Podcast: Give Yourself Permission to Reach Out and Ask for Help
In which Andrew and Beatty discuss Andrew’s article, The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide, how our systems of care are failing young people, and the many ways that our political, educational and healthcare systems could work to reverse this downward trend.
Oct 2022
Video: Song of the Cell: Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee at the New York Public Library
Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee discuss discuss Mukherjee’s new book about how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans.
Oct 2022
Audio: Nine Questions with Eric Oliver: The Interpreter of Shadows
Dr. Eric Oliver of the University of Chicago asks Andrew Solomon nine questions the answers to which are essential for crafting “a well-examined life.”
Sep 2022
Audio: Shadow // Yaddo Podcast: “State of Mind” on Narrative Medicine
This episode of Shadow Yaddo features Andrew Solomon in conversation with Danielle Spencer on the subject of narrative medicine, a field of study that applies skills used in analyzing literature to medicine, and the impacts of storytelling on our health, work and lives.
Jun 2022
Audio: Apple News in Conversation: Why child suicide is on the rise
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.
Apr 2022
Video: Democracy Now! Subway Shooting Highlights NYC and Nation’s Failure to Address Growing Mental Health Crisis
“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.”
Dec 2021
Audio: MSNBC: On the push to ban “offensive” books from Texas public libraries
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.
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