Oliver Sacks
Letters by Oliver Sacks review – valuable insight into a curious mind
From loving letters to his parents expressing early anxieties to later exchanges with scientific heavyweights, this collection of correspondence only cements Sacks’s legacy as a man of great compassion
Gavin Francis
27, Oct, 2024 @4:30 PM
Letters by Oliver Sacks review – science, sex and motorcycles
The kaleidoscopic world and polymathic interests of a great neurologist brought to life in his correspondence
Ralf Webb
25, Oct, 2024 @6:30 AM
Top 10 books about awakenings
These moments of precious fresh awareness can be found in authors from Oliver Sacks to Ottessa Moshfegh and Franz Kafka
Anna Metcalfe
12, Jul, 2023 @11:00 AM
Top 10 books about amnesia | Alafair Burke
Writers from Julian Barnes to Oliver Sacks and Petina Gappah find some profound truths in what gets lost to memory
Alafair Burke
12, Jan, 2022 @12:00 PM
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life review – beautiful and honest study of an amazing man
Remarkable footage shows the pioneering neurologist at work in this excellent documentary
Cath Clarke
28, Sep, 2021 @3:00 PM
Top 10 books about insomnia | Marina Benjamin
From history and fiction to philosophy and poetry, Marina Benjamin reveals the works that helped her understand an unsettlingly common problem
Marina Benjamin
02, Jan, 2019 @11:58 AM
Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition
From Douglas Adams to Oliver Sacks, the standup comedian reveals some of the writers that have helped him try to work out what makes us tick
Robin Ince
17, Oct, 2018 @11:14 AM
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks review – ‘a lifetime of wisdom’
Oliver Sacks’s posthumous essays make for a marvellous series of meditations on his scientific heroes, from Freud to Darwin
Tim Adams
15, Oct, 2017 @8:00 AM
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks review – an agility of enthusiasms
These posthumously published essays range from psychiatry to plagiarism to near-death experiences
Gavin Francis
14, Oct, 2017 @8:00 AM
Dawkins sees off Darwin in vote for most influential science book
A public poll to mark 30 years of the Royal Society book prizes sees The Selfish Gene declared the most significant – with women authors left on the margins
Claire Armitstead
20, Jul, 2017 @1:04 PM
Book reviews roundup: Jacobson’s savage satire; McInerney’s miracles; memories of Sacks
What the critics thought of Howard Jacobson’s Pussy, Lisa McInerney’s The Blood Miracles and Bill Hayes’s Insomniac City
The Guardian
21, Apr, 2017 @4:59 PM
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes review – loving Oliver Sacks
Hayes, a gifted writer from California, shared Sacks’s final decade and grew to love the always surprising city they lived in
Edmund White
06, Apr, 2017 @8:00 AM
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