Oliver Sacks, 1933-2015
Our favorite articles by the neurologist and writer, who died Sunday.
Witty Ticcy Ray
A patient with Tourette’s resents the treatment for it.
London Review of Books Mar 1981 15min
The Leg
Being treated, as a doctor, is not all it’s cracked up to be.
London Review of Books Jun 1982 25min
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
A man’s deteriorating mind can only make sense of the world through music.
London Review of Books May 1983 15min
The "Dark, Paradoxical Gift"
On blindness.
New York Review of Books Apr 1991 10min
An Anthropologist on Mars
On Temple Grandin.
New Yorker Dec 1993 1h10min
The Bull on the Mountain
A hike gone terribly wrong.
New York Review of Books Jun 1984 25min
Brilliant Light
Memories of a scientific childhood.
New Yorker Dec 2012 45min
The Abyss
On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.
New Yorker Apr 2007 30min
Altered States
Self-experiments in chemistry.
New Yorker Apr 2012 25min
My Own Life
Sacks on learning he had terminal cancer.
New York Times Feb 2015
Dr. Sacks Looks Back [Audio]
A final conversation.
Radiolab May 2015
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