Thanks to The American Revolution, Ken Burns’s new documentary, some of us have recently learned that George Washington had ...

All Jilly Cooper’s novels offer the exact kind of heady escapism we could all do with more of, but perhaps none more so than ...

Escapism is marked by "a habitual diversion of the mind." Every day, it gives millions of us much-needed distraction from the monotony of the daily grind. The Cambridge Dictionary defines escapism as ...

As its title suggests, Taylor Swift’s “I Hate It Here” (from The Tortured Poets Department ) expresses an unabashed yearning for escapism. Trapped in a world of “mid-sized city hopes and small-town ...

In 1990s America, I Saw the TV Glow’s Owen (Justice Smith, with a younger version played by Ian Foreman) starts at a new school where they meet a brooding outsider named Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine).