Mike Jay is currently writing High Society, an illustrated cultural history of drugs, for Thames & Hudson. It will be published in November 2010 to accompany an exhibition of the same name at Wellcome Collection in London, on which he is also working. The High Society project includes documentary film and and a series of events – more details nearer the time.

His most recent book is The Atmosphere of Heaven, out now from Yale University Press – details and reviews here, a related article, ‘The Day Pain Died’, in the Boston Globe here, in conversation with Erik Davis on his Expanding Minds radio show here, and details here of his paper on the nitrous oxide experiments in the Notes and Records of the Royal Society.

A French edition of James Lee’s The Underworld of the East, with a new introduction by Mike, is now out – details here

There’s a new article up – “Watson: The Needle!”: Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine

The film rights for The Air Loom Gang are under option with Lloyd Levin.