In fact, there’s a term for this kind of symbiotic relationship between reader and Sad Girl archetype: Girl, Interrupted syndrome. The term comes from Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir, Girl ...

Think of any “sad girl” in a film. You know the one: she wears baggy jeans and band T-shirts, slams doors and sits alone in canteens. And she’s almost always reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia ...

Today, most of my liked songs on Spotify could be described as “sad-girl music,” regardless of their respective genre. From Taylor Swift and Lorde’s synth-pop breakup anthems to Fiona Apple and Alanis ...

What started as sisters texting self-deprecating raccoon memes to each other has become a running club for sad girls. Sort of. In two years, Sad Girl Track Club has amassed 25,000 followers on ...

“Gone Girl” — both the novel and its filmed adaptation — has ... Funnily enough, it is worse at adapting its source material than it is at being its own wounded, sad character study. While reading ...