From the winner of the National Book Award as well as the National Books Critics’ Circle Award-and probably one of the most original thinkers of our time-“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial By far collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair).

By far chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts-political, cultural, and religious. From his stint over the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure finished the about By far: Reporting through the Brink of Transformation Soviet Union, his 2002 accounts from the rebirth of tradition in Afghanistan following fall from the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of the Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it gradually, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many additional tales of profound upheaval, this reserve offers a unique screen onto the idea of sociable change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how background is modified by individuals, and how personal identities are modified when governments modify.

A journalist and essayist of remarkable notion and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of the cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise an extremely personal and reflective job application of the Country wide Book Award winner’s globe-trotting travels” (Elle). By far takes a wonderful journey into the heart of extraordinarily varied experiences: “You won’t only understand the world better after having noticed it through Solomon’s eye, you will also value it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert).