Contributors
Oliver Sacks
All Work
- A Neurologist’s Notebook
How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know
Should a doctor replace an accustomed identity with a meaningless “reality”?
February 25, 2019
- Personal History
The Machine Stops
The neurologist on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
February 4, 2019
- Personal History
Meals and Memories
At life’s end, rediscovering the joys of gefilte fish.
September 7, 2015
- A Neurologist’s Notebook
Spalding Gray’s Catastrophe
A car crash, a brain injury, and an actor's decline.
April 20, 2015
- Notebook
Ninth Avenue Reverie
I had planned, before I became ill, to go to Madagascar, to see its forests.
March 23, 2015
- Sidewalk Dept.
Night of the Ginkgo
New York City’s ginkgo trees will each drop their leaves in a single night. Oliver Sacks explains.
November 17, 2014
- Culture Desk
The Man Who Could Be Anyone
One of the most amazing experiences of my life was working with Robin Williams, watching him become me, in the filming of my book “Awakenings,” in 1989.
August 18, 2014
