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…