As loneliness reaches epidemic levels worldwide, work has become one of the main settings where connection is either strengthened or lost. In 2023, Vivek Murthy, the former surgeon general of the ...

You think you understand loneliness until you enter Yasunari Kawabata’s world. In 'Snow Country' and beyond, silence carries more weight than confession, and distance lingers inside intimacy. His ...

Brawler, her new book, is an aptly titled collection that wallops its reader with ferocious honesty and searing emotional force even as it demonstrates artistic delicacy, intellectual subtlety, and ...

Sex scenes in literature struck me as a natural place to go, given that intimacy is a powerful motivator for men and women ...

The internet is obsessed with lonely animals — be it the penguin who walked away from its colony towards icy peaks or, more recently, the baby monkey at a zoo in Japan that was abandoned and ...

Theater in the 21st century, transformed by the introduction of digital technologies, is designed to immerse the audience in an augmented reality. Where building a set used to require carpenters and ...

In a world overflowing with information and motion, Adem Ince’s 'The Tone of Existence: Modernity and the Loss of the Art of Living' shows ...

A recent poll conducted by Cygnal offers a clear rejection to the noting that lawbreaking or violence is an acceptable response to federal immigration enforcement. According to this poll, ...

In the critically acclaimed The Lonely City (2017), the writer Olivia Laing extolled the pleasures as well as the pains of loneliness, identifying loneliness as a creative enterprise as well as a ...

After a local tragedy, Professor Patrick Fan wondered, could AI be trained to detect signs of emerging depression, anxiety, or suicidal ideation in teenagers?

When Kiran Desai was promoting her 2006 Booker-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss on a French news channel, she admitted that she was working on a book about ...