Historian and Cultural Critic

Katrina Gulliver

3 articles 2017–2018

Katrina Gulliver is a historian and writer whose contributions to The Weekly Standard included essays on cultural topics such as the science and culture of sleep and literary criticism. She has written widely on history, urbanism, and culture for various publications.

To Write a Predator

September 9, 2018 · Books & Arts, culture, Magazine

Katrina Gulliver reviews ‘The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World’ by Sarah Weinman

The Privilege of Sleep: How Culture and Biology Unite to Yield Slumber

May 16, 2017 · magazine_repost, Books and Art, Privilege

Some years ago, I read Roger Ekirch's At Day's Close, a book about the history of sleep. Ekirch discovered that before the arrival of artificial light, English people had customarily had two sleep periods each night. People retired soon after dusk, and rose again at dawn. But their nights were…

Call It Sleep

May 12, 2017 · Books and Art, Katrina Gulliver, sleep

Some years ago, I read Roger Ekirch's At Day's Close, a book about the history of sleep. Ekirch discovered that before the arrival of artificial light, English people had customarily had two sleep periods each night. People retired soon after dusk, and rose again at dawn. But their nights were…