“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 ...

The Chicago-based creative explores loneliness, alienation and identity in his episodic feature that had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. By Georg Szalai Global ...

Modern fiction keeps returning to lonely characters because isolation now hides inside relationships, workplaces and digital ...

Loneliness is defined as “a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception that one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships.” ...

“Loneliness is grief, distended,” writes The New Yorker, condensing timelessness, placelessness, circumstancelessness of feeling. In all the poetical gravity of these lines, to call loneliness an ...