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Toronto author and The Next Chapter columnist Brian Francis stopped by The Next Chapter to review three self-help books about solitude, idleness and baking bread.

If the perpetual state of interruption and noise that we live with feels normal to some of us, it’s only because we are already so completely changed

If youre grappling with being isolated or alone, you might find comfort in these books that explore loneliness and solitude,

Whether you look at it as solitude or isolation, being alone can stir a lot of feelings. These books capture that.

Cell phones are always with us. But some days, I just want to lose myself in nature or allow my brain to run deep, writes Ethan Gilsdorf.

In ‘The Deadly Balance: Predators and People in a Crowded World’, UK scientist Adam Hart dissects one of the most vexed issues in conservation: how to maintain populations of the animals that eat people. One common theme this reviewer has also drawn attention to in this publication is how pover...

To celebrate the release of ‘Crowded World', the new single from Melbourne post-grunge band Moody Beaches, we would like to take you back in time to September 2018 when the then recently formed trio walked into PBS to set up for what turned out to be a very special Studio 5 Live session. This session would be the very last one that long-time PBS announcer Erica Dunn hosted on

We live in a world that can sometimes be too loud. The streets are full of noise, and so are our offices and even our homes. Noise can lead us to feel stressed and it can even cause health problems.

NEW HAVEN — Once, on a flight out of Albuquerque, I was reading a glossy magazine article criticising gross national product (GNP) when I encountered the following quote from a “young radical”: “Don’t tell me about your GNP. To me, it is really Gross National Pollution.”That is cute, I thought, but is it true?