Bob Dylan was my first ‘love’ as a spiritual guide. Rav Soloveitchik was my second, and is my ongoing ‘love’ as a spiritual teacher. From the age of 17 to 27, Bob Dylan helped me articulate my inner ...

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s ...

LONELINESS is on the increase in Wales, but new research says that Scotland and parts of England are faring worse. LONELINESS is on the increase in Wales, but new research says that Scotland and parts ...

At what can be one of the loneliest times of year, a historian of emotion picks the best books about a modern malady Loneliness is everywhere. Or so it seems. It’s been described in medical terms, as ...

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 ...

The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is becoming an agony uncle this January, devoting a column on his website to answering the questions of his distressed readers. Murakami’s surrealist fiction ...

Sweet Beef Theatre’s Crying Shame is a cabaret founded in loneliness which scatters sketches, songs and lip-synching across themes of alienation, attempted recovery and the often-lazy solutions ...

Only on rare occasions does a play's opening line startle you into rapt attention: Peter Knowles, author of this bleakly imaginative comedy of alienation and loneliness, achieves just such a feat. The ...