Days in the Clouds

The never-before-published last essays of the late Duncan Smith, at once heartbreakingly personal and bracingly intellectual.

Following the appearance of his theoretical tour-de-force The Age of Oil and his AIDS diagnosis, Duncan Smith (1954–1991) produced Days in the Clouds, a collection of thirty-eight essays sparkling with his characteristic linguistic brilliance. Now published for the first time, Days in the Clouds chronicles Smith’s response to the disease that would kill him as well as...