Social Media Ideas for Andrew Solomon

The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fert...

There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a pai...

Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevent...

"So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself."

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

"Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back."

Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certa...

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life

"Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a beli...

The Building Blocks of Personhood: Oliver Sacks on Neurocognitive Pillar of What Makes Us Who We Are

"Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique."

At 72, David Grossman ventures into new territory: gay desire and love

Grossman's latest work describes the wordless closeness between men and forbidden fantasies. Meanwhile: a prestigious piano competition returns to Tel Aviv, and the storied Tzavta...

Fiction by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in English for the First Time

A conversation with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s son Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

Yiyun Li reveals life lessons in her new symphonic novel

In sickness and in health: An Israeli writer throws her lot in with the country

The New Yorker's Ruth Margalit has compiled years of profiling Israel's most polarizing personas in her nonfiction debut 'In the Belly of the Whale,' offering a portrait of a socie...

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout audiobook review – brilliant portrait of an existential crisis

A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal MassachusettsArtie Dam is a much-loved history teacher from coasta...

The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change

"There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it."

‘The whole world is becoming rightwing and anti-gay’: William Yang on 60 years of capturing LGBTQ+ life

Yang has taken more than 500,000 photographs since he first moved to Sydney in the late 1960s and now devotes most of his time to untangling the pastAs a young adult, William Yang...

10/2/26: Eriq La Salle with Dave Clark – Laws of Solomon - FREE

Propulsive and deeply human, Laws of Solomon is a story of redemption, found family, and the cost of choosing compassion in a brutal world. In saving Gaby, Solomon may finally disc...

Steve Witkoff Keeps the Light On

Steve Witkoff reunites with freed teacher Marc Fogel, reflecting on loss, diplomacy, and bringing prisoners and hostages home.

Nineteen Truths and One Beguiling Lie about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian

It is an odd thing, looking back on your life, trying to recognize in the mirror of memory the people you used to be, finding them strangers: the person who kissed your first kiss,...

Studying the human condition ‘at its extremes’

Multi-award-winning Greek-British photographer opens up in his portfolio of famous portraits and shares their stories ahead of Athens show.

Beyond Words: Neurodiversity, Music, and Connections

Through music, neurodiversity, and lessons from our own family, students, and educators, we explore the many ways people reach one another beyond words—and what it means to truly l...

From Fear Set Free

Humankind cannot bear very much uncertainty; to our dying day, we are all afraid of the dark. And so we perceive the world selectively, exaggerating the significance of particular...

Bobby, My Best Friend: Stephen Schwarzman (4)

The World Is a Room With a Piano Waiting to Be Played

Like any life, mine has had its pain, yet from the outset it seems to have been graced by unbelievable people and events. An anthology of miracles.

This 700-page biography, 40 years in the making, is a miracle

Decades after an eighth-grader put on a suit to give a presentation on James Baldwin, Nicholas Boggs has delivered Baldwin: A Love Story.

What "Theo of Golden" Teaches Us About Mattering

A novel about a man returning portraits to strangers helps us understand how we can show others that they matter to us.

Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work

"True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives."