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Posted inNonfiction

Cabin Fever: A Reading List for the Perpetually Isolated

by Kara Devlin May 18, 2022October 19, 2022

How the pandemic made us confront what it means to be alone.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Legion Lonely

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 28, 2021October 19, 2022

“For all these reasons—the socialization we receive as kids, as well as emotional restraint, homophobia, experiences of betrayal, and many others—many men stop confiding in each other, trusting each other, supporting each other, and expressing emotion around each other.”

Posted inNonfiction

The Struggle of Having a Pandemic Baby

by Carolyn Wells March 15, 2021October 14, 2022

Giving birth in the last year has meant a suffocatingly cloistered, rather than a communal, experience.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized

Fear of Suffering Alone

by Anne Liu Kellor May 4, 2020December 9, 2022

After separating from her husband and entering quarantine, Anne Liu Kellor faces her ongoing desire for a partner and the necessity of loving herself.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Since I Became Symptomatic

by Sari Botton March 26, 2020October 19, 2022

A month after filing for divorce, single mom Leslie Jamison contracted COVID-19. She wrote this meditation on single parenthood, loneliness, longing, and frustration while sheltering in place — and sweating out the virus — with her 2-year-old daughter.

Posted inFeature

On Solitude (and Isolation and Loneliness [and Brackets])

by Sarah Fay March 17, 2020October 18, 2022

Sarah Fay reflects on four years spent in solitude (and isolation [and loneliness]), viewing it through the lens of punctuation.

Posted inReading List

Swipe Right: A Reading List about Online Dating

by Jacqueline Alnes October 7, 2019October 19, 2022

Jacqueline Alnes shares her own dating app experiences and nine stories about the pitfalls of finding a partner online.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Year of the Cat

by Sari Botton June 2, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Elisabeth Donnelly looks back at a relationship with a wily cat during a lonely time in upstate New York.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

The Year of the Cat

by coolladycoolladycoolladycoollady May 31, 2019October 19, 2022

Elisabeth Donnelly looks back at a relationship with a wily cat during a lonely time in upstate New York.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Year of the Cat

by coolladycoolladycoolladycoollady May 31, 2019October 19, 2022

Elisabeth Donnelly looks back at a relationship with a wily cat during a lonely time in upstate New York.

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