Soon after his suicide in 1989 at the age of 25, Hai Zi’s poems about nature, loneliness, and the fleeting nature of yearning and happiness began inspiring a generation of steadfast, fiercely ...

As part of our Wknd special, we talk to modern historian Fay Bound Alberti, author of A Biography of Loneliness. So what does ...

Out of all the scripture and poetry and midrash that fills Jewish history, all the mysticism and folktales, all the prophecy and piety, all the humor and skepticism, for me one of the most moving ...

Solitude was a Romantic ideal. What separates it from loneliness? Alberti explores the two ideas through the lives and work ...

Jamie Wax's new play treads all-too-familiar territory, but Emmy winner Smart ("Hacks") elevates the material and makes ...

A single paw print in the dust can tell a thousand stories. Solitary big cats—like tigers, leopards, jaguars, and snow ...

The term “male loneliness epidemic” insinuates that men are unique in their aloneness and incomparably helpless when finding friends and partners. But research suggests that isolation is a genderless ...

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry, humor, cleaning, travel, tech and fun facts all week long. RD.COM, GETTY IMAGES. 1. “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare.

In “Call Me Izzy” and “Angry Alan,” patriarchy is a rigged game that everyone is losing. NEW YORK — A dramatic faceoff of ...

Mary Oliver was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who made nature and everything around you feel sacred, and she turned solitude ...