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Mike Jay’s books include Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond, and, most recently, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. (September 2021)
The Well-Blown Mind
In two new books, Carl Hart and Michael Pollan look beyond the narrow rhetoric of the war on drugs.
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
by Dr. Carl L. Hart
This Is Your Mind on Plants
by Michael Pollan
September 23, 2021 issue
The Hide That Binds
A medical librarian’s history of books covered in human skin.
Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
by Megan Rosenbloom
November 5, 2020 issue
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