“I cried to dream again.”
—Caliban, The Tempest
I published a review of Arianna Huffington’s The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life One Night at a Time in Current Affairs.
An excerpt:
Ultimately, Sleep Revolution tells us very little about what we need to know to get more sleep. Huffington’s slender thesis (“Sleep more so you can make more money”) is covered fully in her 4-minute TED talk on the subject, and solutions to sleeplessness are available in innumerable resources on the internet. The book is less important for what it says and more for what it reveals about Huffington’s place in enabling a particularly rapacious form of capitalism, one which first deprives people of sleep and then sells them the methods by which they might regain some of it
You can read the rest here. Contact me for a pdf if you can’t access it.
Image: The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781