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Erika Dyck, “Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018)
Erika Dyck
Psychedelic Prophets
The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond
McGill-Queens University Press, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 29, 2019 Lucas Richert

Today I talked with historian Erika Dyck about Aldous Huxley, Humphry Osmond and their correspondence over a ten year period. Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018) is a collection of letters which were carefully curated by Erika and Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul... Read More
David Courtwright, “The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business” (Harvard UP, 2019)
David Courtwright
The Age of Addiction
How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Harvard University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network May 10, 2019 Lucas Richert

We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse. Today I talked with historian David Courtwright about the global nature of pleasure, vice, and capitalism. His new book is called The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business... Read More
Vivian Percy, “Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth from America’s Opioid and Suicide Epidemic” (Radius Books, 2018)
Vivian Percy
Saving Jenny
Rescuing Our Youth from America's Opioid and Suicide Epidemic
Radius Books, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network April 1, 2019 Marshall Poe

Normal turned to PTSD and a substance abuse nightmare for Jenny the instant a taxi struck her, catapulting her twenty feet across a busy New York City street. Jenny is one of the lucky ones to have survived the drug rehabilitation system, which routinely fails those at risk. Her story... Read More
Dave Chase, “The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call: Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back” (Health Rosetta Media, 2018)
Dave Chase
The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call
Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back
Health Rosetta Media, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network January 22, 2019 Jeremy Corr

The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years. In his new book, The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call: Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back (Health Rosetta Media, 2018),... Read More
Alexander S. Dawson, “The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs” (U California Press, 2018)
Alexander S. Dawson
The Peyote Effect
From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 17, 2019 Mark Klobas

Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico: though prohibited by law, its use remains permissible in both countries for ceremonial practices in certain religions. As Alexander S. Dawson reveals in The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs (University of California Press, 2018),... Read More
Ann Taves, “Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Ann Taves
Revelatory Events
Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths
Princeton University Press, 2016

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 10, 2018 Marshall Poe

I’ve often asked myself this question: “How do religions begin?” I don’t know about you, but I think I would be very, very skeptical if someone told me that they’d had just received a revelation, communicated with some spiritual “higher power,” or had some sort of mystical-though-divinely-inspired experience. Ditto with... Read More
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, “All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2017)
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
All the Agents and Saints
Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
University of North Caroina Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network September 6, 2018 David-James Gonzales

In the United States, contemporary discourse concerning “the border” almost always centers around the country’s southern boundary shared with Mexico. Rarely, in conversations public or private among Americans is there any discussion of the nation’s northern border with Canada. Whatever the reason (ignorance, indifference, or both) all this changes with... Read More