We’ve all seen the statistics about how little people read these days; it only follows that the reviewing of books is becoming an ever-more marginalized practice, relegated to diminutive arts sections ...

Dame Maggie Smith of Downton Abbey fame once said: “There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.” For Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the therapist with a thick German accent who taught Americans to ...

Loneliness, a condition linked to serious mental and physical health risks, remains in the spotlight nearly two years after former U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy declared it a public health ...

Kiran Desai explored loneliness and connection across space and time at the Hammer Museum on Thursday. Desai – the Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of “Hullabaloo in ...

Pierre Lehu worked with Dr. Ruth for 40 years. The iconic sex therapist and talk show host dubbed him her “minister of communications” and he says she was the easiest person to market, whether she was ...

In her latest book, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, Desai writes with a naturalist’s eye, quiet, watchful, observant, calm, and transports us to the places she describes. “Cut. If not, shorten.

When award-winning poet and critic, and director of creative writing at Yale University, Richard Deming sat down to write a book about loneliness, he knew his story, among many others, would lead the ...

I’ve spent decades studying the science of social life and even co-wrote a book on the science of social connection. But that doesn’t mean that connection always comes easily to me, or that I’m immune ...