With the recent debut of the dramatic TV miniseries The Alienist, based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Caleb Carr, I thought it might be interesting to trace some of the history and ...

Even though I had friends, I was still lonely. My friends didn’t understand my reactions. There was a huge void inside me. These are some of the ways that people describe feeling alienated after ...

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 ...