Good Night
Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
by Christopher
Dewdney
Bloomsbury, 2004
(313 pages, $24.95, hardcover)
At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
by A. Roger Ekirch
W. W. Norton, 2005
(447 pages, $25.95, hardcover)
reviewed by Russell D. Moore
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