Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq review - a poetic, panoramic memoir of insomnia

This exploration of where, why and how we sleep (or don't) is as intelligent as it is eccentric "All our body wants is to sleep, it wants to leave us, head back to the stable, a worn-out horse," writes Marie Darrieussecq, at which I, a worn-out human, think yes. In a recent interview, Darrieussecq reflected on how much of her work is concerned with inhabiting. Who has a right to inhabit this planet, she asks, and who doesn't? Though she was talking about her novel Crossed Lines, in which a Paris...