Dreams

Dreams

Night Shifts

by Michael W. Clune,

Can technology shape our dreams?

Fever Dreams

by Erin Gravley, Grace Gravley,

From accounts of dreams reported during the novel coronavirus pandemic, collected in March and April by Erin Gravley and Grace Gravley on their “i dream of covid” website. I was…

Grim Sleeper

by Michel Leiris,

By Michel Leiris (1901–90), from Nights as Day, Days as Night, a chronicle of the author’s dreams between 1923 and 1961. The book was published last month by Spurl Editions.…

An Artist of the Sleeping World

by John Crowley,

Long years ago I gave pain by saying, with the arrogance of boyhood, that it was foolish to tell one’s dreams. I have done penance for that remark since. .…

Insomnia

by Rebecca Solnit,

If only sleep could be hoarded, accumulated, and traded; if only you could store it up for a rainy day or borrow it from friends or buy it on the…

Polivanov’s Dream

by Serena Vitale, Translated by Jamie Richards,

From a response by the Russian literary critic Viktor Shklovsky (1893–1984) to a question by Serena Vitale, during an interview in Moscow in December 1978. Yevgeni Polivanov, who like Shklovsky…