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Voices In Time

1997 | Connecticut

Bleeding a Poppy

Michael Pollan at the intersection of law and gardening.More

Voices In Time

1877 | London

Twelve-Step Program

The proper way to use a snuffbox.More

Voices In Time

1778 | London

In Good Company

Samuel Johnson holds court on wine and its usage.More

Voices In Time

1992 | San Francisco

Crack Isn’t Addictive, Now, Is It?

William T. Vollmann picks up some street knowledge.More

Voices In Time

1931 | Seattle

Tipped Off

Will you please have the Chinese bootlegger’s place raided?More

Voices In Time

1873 | Bristol

Are You There God? It’s Me, John

Chloroform as religious experience.More

Voices In Time

1980 | Buckinghamshire

Staging a Symphony

Roald Dahl describes drunken delusions of grandeur.More

Voices In Time

1530 | Veste Coburg

To Spite the Devil

Martin Luther drinks his demons away.More

Voices In Time

c. 1900 | Dublin

Darker Than the Swoon of Sin

James Joyce on the prowl in Dublin.More

Voices In Time

1861 | Amherst, MA

High on Life

Emily Dickinson drinks deep from nature.More

Voices In Time

1919 | Atlanta

Progress Report

Keeping tabs on the local bootleggers.More

Voices In Time

1604 | London

Cease and Desist

King James’ counterblaste to tobacco.More

Voices In Time

1535 | Lyon

Baby Wants His Bottle

A Rabelaisian birth.More

Voices In Time

c. 700 | Baghdad

Hard Times

Caught in Baghdad with your pants down.More

Voices In Time

1842 | Springfield, IL

Better than a Gallon of Gall

Abraham Lincoln addresses a temperance society.More

Voices In Time

c. 1095 | Europe

The Vision Thing

Pope Urban II summons the armies of the Lord.More

Voices In Time

1816 | Highgate

The Damsel with a Dulcimer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge takes a trip to Xanadu.More

Voices In Time

1836 | Pacific Ocean

Dry Ship, Wet Ocean

Aboard a ship without a drop to drink.More

Voices In Time

c. 650 BC | Paros

Drunkard’s Dream

Archilochus longs for carnal knowledge.More

Voices In Time

1890 | Yasnaya Polyana

Drowning the Conscience

Leo Tolstoy considers the moral implications of smoking.More

Voices In Time

c. 1949 | Mexico

Sounds of the Second Coming

Jack Kerouac visits a Mexican house of ill repute.More

Voices In Time

1844 | England

Work Is the Curse of the Drinking Classes

Friedrich Engels on the intemperance of the proletariat.More

Voices In Time

1910 | Ireland

Here’s Looking at You, Kid

W.B. Yeats on love and wine.More

Voices In Time

1822 | London

Consumer Report

Thomas De Quincey says opium is far more agreeable than alcohol.More

Voices In Time

1943 | Basel

Exploring an Alternate Universe

Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD.More

Voices In Time

c. 1628 | Merrymount

Lord of Misrule

A few unruly Puritans pursue everlasting jollity.More

Voices In Time

1963 | New York City

Picking Up the Tab

Anne Roiphe helps a friend survive the night.More

Voices In Time

c. 720 | China

Pour Another One

Waking drunk on a spring day.More

Voices In Time

c. 1867 | Paris

Mission Statement

“One should always be drunk.”More

Voices In Time

1674 | London

Nauseous Puddle Water

Englishwomen are through with their coffee-drinking husbands.More

Voices In Time

c. 1843 | Indian Ocean

The Milk and Sperm of Kindness

Herman Melville gets his hands dirty.More

Voices In Time

1801 | Baltimore

Intervention

The Great Spirit versus the evil of spirits.More

Voices In Time

c. 1600 | Aleppo

Some Like It Hot

On the Turks’ love of coffee.More

Voices In Time

c. 3760 BC | Eden

Ye Shall Be As Gods

The temptation of Eve.More

Voices In Time

1833 | Maryland

Crowd Control

“The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.”More

Voices In Time

416 BC | Athens

Crashing the Party

Late night at the symposium.More

Voices In Time

1819 | London

Flight Plan

“Was it a vision, or a waking dream?”More

Voices In Time

c. 1855 | Poughkeepsie, NY

Wrinkle in Time

Fitz Hugh Ludlow goes on a bad trip.More

Voices In Time

1843 | London

Under the Influence

John Elliotson witnesses a mesmerizing surgery.More

Voices In Time

2001 | Oelwein, IA

Reconstructing the Hallucination

Nick Reding documents a meth high gone wrong.More

Voices In Time

1954 | Los Angeles

Withdrawal Symptoms

“It’s nothing like the movies...You just lie there and suffer.”More

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