Thanksgiving is almost upon our U.S. readers, and whether it’s the long drives, visiting a childhood home, couch dozing after a winter walk, or getting plain old turkey-tuckered, we’re already dreaming of the glorious cat-naps that so often accompany the holiday.Thanksgiving is almost upon our U.S. readers, and whether it’s the long drives, visiting a childhood home, couch dozing after a winter walk, or getting plain old turkey-tuckered, we’re already dreaming of the glorious cat-naps that so often accompany the holiday.

In our Winter 2011 issue, Simon J. Williams invited us to “sleep on this: sleep is a highly social endeavor, posing a puzzle and a prism through which to view life in the wired era” in his article, “Our Hard Days’ Nights.” He wrote, “How we sleep, when we sleep, where we sleep, with whom we sleep, and the meanings we accord our sleep are all social, cultural, and historical matters that demand (and repay) our attention. …[Sleep] constitutes a prime example of how we might profitably link the private realm of “personal troubles” to broader public issues of “social structure,” particularly at a time when the notion of a “well-slept” society appears to be an increasingly distant era.”

In our Winter 2011 issue, Simon J. Williams invited us to “sleep on this: sleep is a highly social endeavor, posing a puzzle and a prism through which to view life in the wired era” in his article, “Our Hard Days’ Nights.” He wrote, “How we sleep, when we sleep, where we sleep, with whom we sleep, and the meanings we accord our sleep are all social, cultural, and historical matters that demand (and repay) our attention. …[Sleep] constitutes a prime example of how we might profitably link the private realm of “personal troubles” to broader public issues of “social structure,” particularly at a time when the notion of a “well-slept” society appears to be an increasingly distant era.”