After one of his sons fell into a deep depression, he helped him recover. He later licensed an antidepressant that was a boon to his pharmaceutical company. By Richard Sandomir Andrew Solomon never ...

Calling depression the "flaw of love," 2001 National Book Award–winner Solomon (A Stone Boat) brings a stunning breadth of research to this widely misunderstood and often stigmatized illness. At least ...

For a depressive, reading about depression is a double-edged experience. One enters into a book hoping to find stories similar to his own but, significantly, with happy endings—and maybe even a map of ...

Sixteen years ago, Andrew Solomon went to Afghanistan on assignment for The New York Times. A sedulous reporter — Solomon’s acclaimed books include “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression,” in part ...

In his book "The Noonday Demon," Andrew Solomon describes the physical intimacy of Inuit village life in Greenland, where large families gather in one room for months at a time and "there is no place ...

"Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who despair," begins Solomon's expansive and astutely observed examination of the experience, origins and cultural ...

Writer Andrew Solomon. His book on depression, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, (Scribner) just won a National Book Award. The work came out of a 1998 New Yorker article. He draws on ...

I've never read Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). But Andrew Solomon's description of it--as a "subtle, self-contradictory, badly organized, hugely wise volume" that synthesizes existing ...

His new book on depression, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, (Scribner) came out of a 1998 New Yorker article. He draws on personal experience as well as interviews with patients, physicians ...