Hello, fellow bookworms! This week, Indy news intern Caitlin Scialla joins us in the bookish fun to bring us some recommendations from the “sad girl” subculture that’s been enjoying a wave of ...

In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness. I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending.

Explore 5 ways therapists say they get through a bad mental health day. Tara Venkatesan, PhD, a cognitive scientist at Oxford University and an operatic soprano, told Health that sad music evokes ...

As a biopic of the Grammy-winning, then not-Grammy winning dance pop duo Milli Vanilli, “Girl You Know It’s True” suggests the story you thought you knew is not real.

No, “sad-girl pop” is reserved only for women, to oversimplify and devalue many of the industry’s most evocative, raw and regularly sensational artists. Lucky for some, their popularity has ...

Japanese Breakfast: Not Sad, Just Brilliant Michelle Zauner’s latest, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), is another example of her eclectic indie-pop excellence By Brenna Ehrlich ...