Andrew Solomon: The experience of depression tends to be bad where people don’t feel that they are able to communicate with one another

  Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts; and an activist in LGBTI rights and mental health, as well as one of five parents to four kids. His book The Noonday Demon, 2000, won the 2001 National Book Award (US), was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and was included in The Times list of one hundred best books of the decade. His Far from … Continue reading Andrew Solomon: The experience of depression tends to be bad where people don’t feel that they are able to communicate with one another

Bus-ed up

At dusk, between 18 and 20 o’clock, the public transport debunks all laws of physics with its overloaded buses, but the suffocating passengers clench teeth in the name of their final destination and the world records. These small bus societies always have something to offer – besides the excessive invasion in everyone’s personal space and the high rate of probability that thieves are operating in … Continue reading Bus-ed up