Einsamkeit

The annual report from the Department of Defense found a vast majority of civilian spouses of active-duty members faced a variety of challenges due to their partners' deployment.

How connected do you feel to other people and the world around you? It’s a human need to belong; to have close one-to-one relationships with others and to belong to social groups. As Peter White writes in his article on p42, “Beyond human contact, ho

The author started a project on loneliness by asking this simple question. Many people quickly recounted experiences, often with surprising specificity.

Alone in the crowd, but not lonely. Realstock/shutterstock.com Are Americans becoming lonelier? On May 1, NPR reported on a survey about loneliness conducted by Cigna, a large health insurance company. Cigna asked over 20,000 American adults if they

Britons are more prone to social isolation than other Europeans, and researchers say the cost for society in lost productivity and poor health is rising. A new minister of loneliness is tasked with finding solutions.

Language poetry—and to my mind the best Language poetry was written in prose—was a machine that ran on difficulty. Reading a prose poem deploying what Ron Silliman called “the new sentence” was intended to be an exercise in frustration: the reader at

The ice on Lake Baikal in Siberia is thick and endless, a deep blue covered with fresh powdery snow. It’s a long journey to reach this middle of nowhere. First a six-hour flight from Moscow to Irkutsk, then three hours by car, and finally four hours