What Opium’s History Tells Us about Today’s Drug War
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories Amitav Ghosh Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2024) Having written three novels on the 19th-century opium trade, Amitav Ghosh revisits the subject in his 2024 book Smoke and Ashes, a non-fiction account that draws on …