The neurologist and writer communicated with a wide network of friends and professional acquaintance. He never lost the sense ...

The late author's correspondence shows a restless intellect roving far beyond what we saw in his books 'Awakenings' and 'The ...

Musicophilia, which is inspired by the Oliver Sacks book of the same name. “It’s a rare condition,” says Glennie, on the line from her office in London, England. The percussionist is ...

Oliver Sacks was a compulsive letter-writer. From 1985, when he became famous for The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, he ...

Six decades of the neurologist’s correspondence have been expertly woven into a collection of humanistic observations, ...

NOVA investigates the extraordinary impact music can have on the human brain, through the remarkable case studies from neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks latest book Musicophilia. We travel around the ...

from a Thou whom we respect untheological relationships demand. In “ The Oliver Sacks I Knew and Loved Once Saw Himself as a Failure,” NYT, 10/19/24. Bill Hayes, Oliver Sacks’s partner in ...

Mr. Hayes is the author of the memoir “Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me” and was Dr. Sacks’s partner in the last six years of his life. The Oliver Sacks that most of the world ...

Here's how they put it in an essay celebrating Sacks' 80th birthday: We can emulate Oliver, as he writes not only about the chemical play of his childhood and 19th-century chemistry, but also when ...

Oliver Sacks is one of the few scientists who has accomplished this with his chosen subject matter, the brain: he skyrocketed to fame in 1973 with his book Awakenings and has remained a household name ...

When Oliver Sacks died in 2015 ... (1973), “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” (1985), “Musicophilia” (2007) and many other books seems to have been always on the go.