The impact of loneliness on health is supposedly equivalent to 13 cigarettes a day. It’s certainly one of the most pernicious destroyers of life, and it’s apparently on the increase. Yet often it is ...

Bart Sagmoen and Craig Pollock are regular Alberta truck transport drivers, sacrificing home and health on the road for a combined 73 years, trying to stay above the fray and do their jobs in an ...

Every year, the holidays—which the media presents as the most joyful time of the year—can be a marathon to endure for the estranged. Often, they’re a painful reminder of the loss, loneliness, ...

In this age of pervasive alienation and loneliness, it is worth remembering the root of all human connection and the template for human love: that is, the mother-child dyad. That connection begins in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adolescent alienation and loneliness were popular themes among Japanese filmmakers at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Both Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Pulse" and Shunji Iwai's "All About Lily ...

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 ...