U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared loneliness a national health epidemic, saying it poses risks as deadly as smoking.

Of Mice and Men was first published in 1937. It is set in a place called Soledad, a Spanish word meaning solitude or loneliness, in California, during the Great Depression. This was a period of ...

Reflecting a period of economic devastation in the United States, Of Mice and Men demonstrates the damaging effects of the Great Depression upon ordinary working men.