Best Selling Books by Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants, pregnancy and depression, and much more. The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers, and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations—around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.

Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.

The debut novel, first published over twenty years ago, from the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity—a luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his mother, sexuality, the startling changes wrought by grief, loss, and self-discovery. Harry, an internationally celebrated young concert pianist, decides it''s time to travel to Paris to confront his glamorous and formidable mother about her dismay at his homosexuality. But before he can give voice to his hurt and anger, he discovers that she is terminally ill. In an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt and despair over the prospect of her death, he embarks on several intense affairs—one with a longtime female friend—that force him to question his capacity for love, and finally to rediscover it. Part eulogy, part confession, and part soliloquy on forgiveness, A Stone Boat is a luminous evocation of the destructive and regenerative, all-encompassing love between a son and his mother, by America’s foremost chronicler of personal and familial resilience.

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—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political, cultural, and spiritual. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter. A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winner’s globe-trotting adventures” (Elle). Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences: “You will not only know the world better after having seen it through Solomon’s eyes, you will also care about it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

First published in The New Yorker, “Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read it—it’s moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There aren’t any answers. And that’s what makes this all so impossible, and Solomon’s journalism so essential” (Salon.com). “Both parents loved Adam. Neither parent imagined or wanted their child’s horrific end. This is why what Peter Lanza did by sharing his story with Andrew Solomon is so important. Lanza’s story fills important gaps in our understanding of how a beloved child became a killer—and reminds us as a society that we have an obligation to help families and children before they find themselves on irreversible paths of violence” (Time).

It is vitally important for medical students and junior doctors to grasp an understanding of ‘real-life medicine’. This innovative book of cases shows how a particular presentation may progress, and the different complications that may arise and emerge over time, which may be missed by the ‘snapshot in time'' approach taken by many problem-based volumes. The content reflects the average length of stay for a patient in hospital, in which their situation can change in a multitude of ways, and the management of chronic conditions may also need to be adapted as complications arise. Demonstrates the real bedside experiences that medical students can expect, in whichever simple or complex way that they may present Cases selected from a range of sub-specialties for comprehensive coverage across the curriculum Illustrates the complicated, progressive problems that will be seen while practicing as a doctor with detailed diagrams and diagnostic imagery to aid understanding Shows, with timepoints, how differential diagnoses may change as more information becomes available and new symptoms arise Describes a typical initial hospital stay, and subsequent presentations to the general practitioner and hospital readmission The Authors Andrew Solomon, BM BCH MA(Hons) DM FRCP, is a Consultant Physician, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Stevenage, UK. Julia Anstey, BSc (Hons) MBBS, is a Foundation Doctor, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Taunton, UK. Liora Wittner, MBBS BSc, is a Resident in Internal Medicine, Shamir Medical Centre, Be''er Ya''akov, Israel. With contributions from Priti Dutta, MBBS BSc FRCR, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

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This timely issue of the Bulletin brings together fourteen voices from across curatorial departments and Met Trustees to consider how artists and cultures throughout history have explored the nature of leadership, interrogated the workings of society, and redefined the ideals of freedom and democracy. The essays in this issue center around one of three different themes: the ways societies are formed through collective collaboration, the symbols of leadership and civilization, and the images of leaders that commemorate, mythologize, or even obscure those who govern. By expanding worldviews and building bridges among disparate experiences, The Met plays a vital part in considering the definition of leadership and what it means to build a society. This volume asserts museums’ roles as keepers of histories and places of reflection and learning. As stewards of five thousand years of art from around the globe, The Met is privileged to preserve, share, and reevaluate the countless stories told by the objects in its collection while connecting them to the present day.

This special issue of the Bulletin reflects on some of the crises gripping our world in the present moment, including the catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing tragedy of racial injustice. Voices from The Metropolitan Museum of Art present their personal perspectives on issues and challenges facing us all while connecting these difficult times to art, artists, and the Museum’s history. Conceived and written during the Museum’s unprecedented closure, this compelling publication reflects on art’s power to inspire, comfort, and heal.

Showscases the work of 33 painters who have chosen to remain in post-communist Russia

Volum finalist la Premiul Pulitzer, câştigător al National Book Awards şi inclus în lista The Times a celor mai bune o sută de cărţi ale deceniului „Ni se vorbise despre Andrew Solomon ca despre o legendă: privindu-l, încercam să-i ascult povestea, alcătuită nu din cuvinte mai întâi, ci din tonuri de lumină şi din mici străluciri ale canavalei pe care era pictat. Nu ştiam atunci – a trebuit să-i citesc cartea ca să aflu – că aveam în faţă un om care încercase de toate, căruia nimic omenesc nu-i era străin, care supravieţuise Africii negre şi pustiurilor de gheaţă de dincolo de Cercul Polar, care cunoscuse toate formele de amor şi toate nuanţele suferinţei umane, care-şi dereglase voit, asemenea lui Rimbaud, toate simţurile, care citise, asemenea lui Mallarmé, toate cărţile, care cartografiase, asemenea lui Lautréamont, toate iadurile minţii... Fiziologia, chimia, sociologia, etnologia, tratamentul şi istoricul depresiei sunt comprehensiv presărate de-a lungul întregii scrieri, dar fără-ndoială că aspectul cărţii care rămâne cel mai puternic în amintire este cel de autobiografie spirituală a autorului, povestea vieţii lui întreţesute indiscernabil cu tema depresiei. Această privire retrospectivă asupra vieţii unui personaj de o extremă complexitate morală nu e doar o confesiune, adevăratul termen ce trebuie folosit e spovedanie. M-am simţit îmbogăţit interior parcurgând, pasionat, cartea lui Andrew Solomon. Mai mult decât ştiinţă şi mai mult decât literatură, ea este o mărturie despre suferinţă, o meditaţie despre scandalul etern al faptului că o conştiinţă trebuie să simtă durere şi să moară. Traducerea în limba română a acestei opere, nominalizată în anul publicării ei la Premiul Pulitzer, trebuie privită drept ceea ce este cu adevărat: un eveniment.“ (Mircea CĂRTĂRESCU) „O călătorie de o sinceritate sfâşietoare printr-una dintre cele mai sumbre încăperi ale sufletului omenesc." (Daniel GOLEMAN) „O imagine caleidoscopică şi fascinantă a depresiei." (James Dewey WATSON, Premiul Nobel pentru medicină, descoperitorul ADN-ului) Demonul amiezii explorează, cu imagini grăitoare şi până în străfunduri, fenomenul melancoliei şi al spaimei. E o mărturie cuprinzătoare, în toate sensurile – personal, ştiinţific, istoric şi politic –, asupra depresiei clinice, a originilor ei, a modalităţilor de manifestare şi a tratamentului necesar. O lucrare importantă care vorbeşte despre suferinţă, dar şi – chiar într-o mai mare măsură – despre speranţă.“ (Kay Redfield JAMISON, profesor de psihiatrie, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) „Puţine cărţi sunt atât de puternice, de polemice şi, pe alocuri, de un asemenea umor straniu... O carte clasică a epocii noastre, un text esenţial pentru o generaţie bântuitã de depresie.“ (Mail on Sunday) „O carte fascinantă şi empatică... Captivantă, de largă respiraţie, lipsită de prejudecăţi, utilă, o mărturie a forţei de care poate da dovadă mintea omenească în confruntarea cu provocările cele mai cumplite, o carte care ne aduce tuturor o rază de speranţă.“ (Erica WAGNER, The Times)

Partindo de sua própria batalha contra a depressão, Andrew Solomon constrói um retrato monumental da doença que assola nossos tempos. Com epílogo inédito à reedição brasileira. Lançado em 2000, O demônio do meio-dia continua sendo uma referência sobre a depressão, para leigos e especialistas. Com rara humanidade, sabedoria e erudição, o premiado autor Andrew Solomon convida o leitor a uma jornada sem precedentes pelos meandros de um dos temas mais espinhosos e complexos de nossos dias. Entremeando o relato de sua própria batalha contra a doença com o depoimento de vítimas da depressão e a opinião de especialistas, Solomon desconstrói mitos, explora questões éticas e morais, descreve as medicações disponíveis, a eficácia de tratamentos alternativos e o impacto que a depressão tem nas várias populações demográficas (sejam crianças, homossexuais ou os habitantes da Groenlândia). No epílogo inédito escrito exclusivamente para a reedição brasileira, conhecemos o que aconteceu com Solomon, com os entrevistados e com os tratamentos da depressão desde a publicação de O demônio do meio-dia. A inteligência, a curiosidade e a empatia do autor nos permitem conhecer não só as doenças mentais, mas a profundidade da experiência humana. Uma obra monumental.

Un clásico contemporáneo sobre las relaciones entre padres e hijos, una lección de vida. Lejos del árbol es un libro esencial sobre las relaciones entre padres e hijos y sus diferencias. A lo largo de diez años, Andrew Solomon, ganador del National Book Award por El demonio de la depresión, ha realizado un estudio con más de trescientas familias que han aprendido a convivir con la sordera, el enanismo, el síndrome de Down, el autismo, la esquizofrenia, la discapacidad, los niños prodigio, hijos delincuentes, transexuales o hijos que son fruto de una violación. Solomon sostiene que la normalidad no existe, que todos somos «imperfectos y extraños» y que es la diferencia lo que nos une. Afirma que todos tenemos discapacidades o traumas en mayor o menor grado, y reivindica la discapacidad no como enfermedad susceptible de curarse sino como rasgo de identidad. Su extraordinario trabajo de investigación consigue desarticular este arraigado prejuicio social, un estigma que ha hecho y sigue haciendo mucho daño. Lejos del árbol no es un libro de parenting, no es un libro de psicología ni de crítica social. Es un libro necesario y hermoso que plantea un nuevo horizonte de comprensión hacia nosotros mismos y hacia los demás. Reseñas: «La cima de la no ficción. Una lectura obligatoria para psicólogos, maestros y padres en general. Una llamada a reconsiderar aquello que nos hace diferentes los unos de los otros.» USA Today «Una obra maestra.» The New York Times «Un libro bello y valiente que nos hace más humanos.» People «Uno de los libros más extraordinarios que he leído en los últimos tiempos. Valiente, compasivo y asombrosamente humano. Solomon trata una de las preguntas clásicas: ¿cuánto hay de innato y cuánto de adquirido en cada uno de nosotros? A través de sus historias, contadas con una delicadeza y una lucidez fuera de lo común, aprendemos cuán diferentes somos y cuán dolorosamente parecidos. No podía dejar de leer.» Siddhartha Mukherjee, ganador del Premio Pulitzer por El emperador de todos los males «Que los seres humanos somos fuertes para sobrellevar circunstancias extremas, que tenemos una capacidad notable para adaptarnos y que recurrimos al poder del amor para superar situaciones sobrecogedoras son verdades universales que cobran vida en estas historias recogidas por Solomon.» New York Review of Books «Solomon cruza fronteras nacionales, étnicas y religiosas para hablar a los padres sobre sus hijos y, por el camino, aprende qué es lo que nos hace humanos.» Newsweek «Extraordinario. Un pedazo de inteligencia concentrada.» The Observer «Un libro que todo el mundo debería leer. Quien lo haga se convertirá en un padre -y un ser humano- más imaginativo y comprensivo.» The New York Times Book Review «Una cuidadosa, sutil y sorprendente exploración de las diferencias que le dan forma a la vida familiar.» New Yorker «Un estudio emotivo del amor paternal frente a la adversidad.» Telegraph