Loneliness

When Max Dickins started to think about proposing to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. This realisation sent him down a rabbit hole, examining the friendships he had had over the years. Men are, on on average, more isolated and lonelier than women. ...

This work defines an unrecognised syndrome - chronic loneliness - brings it out of the shadow of its cousin, depression, and shows how this subjective sense of social isolation disrupts our perceptions, behaviour and physiology, becomming a trap that not only reinforces isolation but can lead to ...

What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Fascinated by the experience, she ...

Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. While we can't cure loneliness the way we can cure strep throat or even cancer, there are concrete, actionable and effective things we c...

In 'This One Wild and Precious Life', Sarah Wilson explores the central disorder of modern existence: disconnection from ourselves, disconnection from community, disconnection from a higher purpose. As seen in USA Today's hottest releases and TheWashington Post's 10 New Books Spotlight"Sarah Wils...