Andrew Solomon

Filmmaker Rachel Dretzin and Andrew Solomon on the documentary “Far From the Tree,” about parents and their children whose identities are so very different from their own.  

Writers and artists Ali Asgar, Édouard Louis, Garth Greenwell and Andrew Solomon explore how gay life, gay men and gay culture are changing and how artists are responding in their work.

We all want to teach our kids morals. But is it fair to have them carrying signs at protests and participating in political movements they haven't thought through themselves?

Andrew Solomon's view on travel: “If everyone spent two weeks in another country half of the world’s diplomatic issues would be solved.” 

Women who suffer from depression during pregnancy face a difficult question without a clear answer: What's worse for the fetus, a depressed mother or prescription drugs? 

The novelist Francine Prose discusses why she withdrew as a host from the PEN gala. Then, PEN's president Andrew Solomon talks about the state of free expression.

In our ongoing series on "books that changed your mind", authors Andrew Solomon and Cris Beam talk about the approaches to parenting and kinship in their popular books.

Although the killing 26 people at an elementary school remains incomprehensible, one journalist's conversations with a grieving father can give us insight into what went wrong.

What does your family look like? The quintessential American family has been changing dramatically in recent years. This week, we're talking about those changes and how they will be r...

National Book Award–winning author Andrew Solomon tells the stories of families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. In Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, he looks at how these parents not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.

National Book Award–winning author Andrew Solomon tells the stories of families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. In Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, he looks at how these parents not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.

National Book Award-winning author Andrew Solomon joins to discuss his new book, Far From The Tree, and shares how the families of musical geniuses such as Joshua Bell and Lang Lang s...

Though Todd Akin's comments on "legitimate rape" once again brought the issue of our country’s understanding — or misunderstanding — of rape to the forefront, arguments over statistic...

As baby boomers age and wounded soldiers return from Iraq, more and more Americans will be caring for ill family members at home. Andrew Solomon and Susan Lehman are contributors to the new essay collection, An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family. Nell Casey is the book's editor.

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