Loneliness is often seen as a modern epidemic—fueled by social media, digital detachment, and the fast pace of urban life. But the truth is, loneliness isn’t new. It has always been a part of the ...

Solitude was a Romantic ideal. What separates it from loneliness? Alberti explores the two ideas through the lives and work of writers, poets, artists. In the critically acclaimed The Lonely City ...

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 ...

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 ...