Andrew Solomon Audio & Video

The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms....

From the National Book Award-winning author comes a game-changer of a book about the impact of extreme personal and cultural difference between parents and children.

In this episode of the Charlie Rose Brain Series, the panel of guests covers one of the most common mental illnesses in the world, which is depression.

In this podcast host Krista Tippett interviews author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Andrew Solomon, Quaker author & activist Parker Palmer, and poet Anita Barrows about their experiences with depression.

Solomon opens FAR FROM THE TREE with an autobiographical chapter detailing his experience as the gay son of heterosexual parents.

Author Andrew Solomon discusses depression, both in his own personal experiences and as a societal problem which is now one of the leading causes of disability worldwide.

The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms....

Andrew Solomon won the 2001 National Book Award for his book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. In this Fresh Air interview from 2001, Terry Gross talks with him about the book and the mental illness of depression.

Drawing on dozens of intimate audio interviews with families from all across the country, award-winning psychologist and writer Andrew Solomon redefines what it means to be an "ideal family" in America today.

From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics' Circle Award - and one of the most original thinkers of our time - a riveting collection of essays about places in dramatic transition.