This led us to consider ways to integrate disconnection periods into higher education pedagogy. We invited students to take part in a “digital fast”, a month-long break from non-essential DT ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Asian seniors facing lonelinessand alienation in a foreign land Canada with a population of approximately thirty five million has at least five million seniors. By the year 2041 one inevery four ...

In this third multi-play show of Pinter at the Pinter — a season celebrating Harold Pinter’s mastery of short drama (read our reviews of Pinter One and Pinter Two) — the focus is on loneliness and ...

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 ...