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The Lonely Hearts Club
Olivia Laing has found a canny, outward-facing architecture to hold up the viscous topic of loneliness.
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Nora Caplan-Bricker is a contributor at Slate and a former staff writer for The New Republic. Her reporting and criticism have also appeared at NewYorker.com, and in Pacific Standard, New York, Washingtonian, and elsewhere. She splits her time between Washington, DC and Boston. She is a senior reader for Ploughshares.