List of Publications
Books (with dates and publishers of first editions)
Contributions to Books
- Sacks, O.W.; Carpenter, S.H.; Verity, M.A.; and Brown, W.J. The Axonal Dystrophies. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Center for Health Sciences, Division of Neuropathology, 1965. [Printed for the American Academy of Neurology, 1965 Meeting, Cleveland, OH]
- Spender, Stephen, ed. W.H. Auden: A Tribute. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Dear Mr. A …. pp. 187-195.
- Sarner, Martin, ed. Advanced Medicine 18. London: Pitman Medical, 1982.
Contains: Sacks, O.W. ‘Awakenings’ Revisited, pp. 326-340.
- Friedhoff, Arnold J. and Chase, Thomas N., eds. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: Advances in Neurology: Volume 35. NY: Raven Press, 1982.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver W. Acquired Tourettism in Adult Life, pp. 89-92.
- Banks, Joanne Trautman, ed. Literature and Medicine: Volume 5. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Clinical Tales, pp. 16-23.
- Gregory, Richard L., ed. The Oxford Companion to the Mind. NY: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Contains: Sacks, O. Nothingness, pp. 564-565.
- Luria, A.R. The Man with a Shattered World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. vii-xviii.
- Mueller, Jonathan, ed. Neurology and Psychiatry: A Meeting of Minds. Basel: Karger, 1989.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver W. Neuropsychiatry and Tourette’s, pp. 156-174.
- Wiltshire, Stephen. Cities. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1989.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. 4-8.
- Rosenfield, Israel. The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain. New York: Basic Books, 1989.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword to the Paperback Edition, pp. xiii-xviii.
- Goldberg, Elkhonon, ed. Contemporary Neuropsychology and the Legacy of Luria. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Luria and “Romantic Science”, pp. 181-194.
- Goshen-Gottstein, Esther. Recalled to Life: The Story of a Coma. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. [ix-xi]
- Stern, G., ed. Parkinson’s Disease. London: Chapman & Hall, 1990.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver W. “Post-encephalitic Syndromes,” pp. 415-429.
- Todes, Cecil. Shadow Over My Brain: A Battle Against Parkinson’s Disease. Gloucestershire, England: Windrush Press, 1990.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. ix-xii.
- Cole, Jonathan. Pride and a Daily Marathon. London: Duckworth, 1991.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. ix-xiv.
- Corsi, Pietro, ed. The Enchanted Loom: Chapters in the History of Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Neurology and the Soul, pp. 366-370.
- Hull, John M. Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness. London: Arrow Books, 1991.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword to the Arrow Books Edition, pp. v-viii.
- Schaller, Susan. A Man Without Words. NY: Summit Books, 1991.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. 11-15.
- Wiltshire, Stephen. Floating Cities: Venice, Amsterdam, Leningrad – and Moscow. London: Michael Joseph, 1991.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. ix-xiv.
- Broyard, Anatole. Intoxicated by My Illness: And Other Writings on Life and Death. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1992.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. xi-xv.
- Seligman, Adam Ward and Hilkevich, John S., eds. Don’t Think About Monkeys. Duarte, CA: Hope Press, 1992.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. i-iv.
- Koenen, Liesbeth; Bloem, Tony; and Janssen, Ruud. Gebarentaal: De Taal Van Doven in Neder. Amsterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1993.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Introductie [introduction in Dutch only]
- Kurlan, Roger, ed. Handbook of Tourette’s Syndrome and Related Tic and Behavioral Disorders. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1993.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Tourette’s Syndrome: A Human Condition, pp. 509-514.
- 21: Picador Authors Celebrate. London: Picador, 1993.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. 1972, pp. 1-8.
- Goldstein, Kurt. The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man. New York: Zone Books, 1995.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. 7-14.
- Grandin, Temple. Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. 11-16.
- Martin, Stoddard, ed. Colin Haycraft 1929-1994: Maverick Publisher. London: Duckworth, 1995.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Midwife and Unmuddler, pp. 56-68.
- Silvers, Robert B., ed. Hidden Histories of Science. New York: New York Review Books, 1995.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science, pp. 141-187.
- Barrett, Deirdre, ed. Trauma and Dreams. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Neurological Dreams, pp. 212-216.
- Maher, Jane. Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. Stokoe. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1996.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. ix-xvi.
- Liveing, Edward. On Megrim, Sick-Headache and Some Allied Disorders: A Contribution to the Pathology of Nerve-Storms. Nijmegen: Arts & Boeve 1997.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Introduction, pp. ix-xxviii.
- Guttmann, Giselher and Scholz-Strasser, Inge, eds. Freud and the Neurosciences: From Brain Research to the Unconscious. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1998.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver W. Sigmund Freud: The Other Road, pp. 13-22.
- Ramachandran, V.S. and Blakeslee, Sandra. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. NY: William Morrow and Co., 1998.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. vii-ix.
- Roth, Michael S., ed. Freud: Conflict and Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. The Other Road: Freud as Neurologist, pp. 221- 234.
- Tomaino, Concetta M., ed. Clinical Applications of Music in Neurologic Rehabilitation. St. Louis, MO: MMB Music, 1998.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Music and the Brain, pp. 1-18.
- Ostwald, Peter. Glenn Gould. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Introduction to the paperback edition
- Cahill, Kevin M., ed. The Open Door: Health and Foreign Policy at the RCSI. Dublin: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and The Center for International Health and Cooperation, 1999.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Neurology and the Soul, pp. 93-106.
- Lethem, Jonathan, ed. The Vintage Book of Amnesia. New York: Vintage, 2000.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. The Last Hippie, pp. 196-226.
- Goldberg, Elkhonon. The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. NY: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. vii-xiv.
- Park, Clara Claiborne. Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. ix-xiv.
- Lide, David R., ed. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 85th edition. New York: CRC Press, 2003.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword
- Engel, Howard. Memory Book. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver, Afterword, p. 238-248.
- Gould, Stephen Jay. The Richness of Life. American edition. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2007.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver, Preface, p. xi-xiv.
- Roosens, Eugeen, and Van de Walle, Lieve. Geel Revisited: After Centuries of Mental Rehabilitation. Antwerp: Apeldoorn, 2007.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver, Foreword, pp. 9-11.
- Silvers, Robert and Barbara Epstein, eds. The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships. New York: New York Review Books, 2006.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. On Francis Crick, pp. 275-289.
- Karinthy, Frigyes. A Journey Round My Skull. New York: New York Review Books, 2008.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver, Introduction, pp. vii-xx.
- Geist, Mary Ellen. Measure of the Heart: A Father’s Alzheimer’s, A Daughter’s Return. New York: Springboard Press, 2008.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver, Foreword, pp. ix-xiii.
- Engel, Howard. The Man Who Forgot How to Read. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2007.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver, Afterword, pp. 149-157.
- Gengarelly, Tony, and Weatherbee, Adria A. Exploring Nirvana: The Art of Jessica Park. North Adams: Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 2008.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver, Foreword, p. 9.
- Lazar, David. Truth in Nonfiction. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Gowers’s Memory, pp. 59-65.
- Podoll, Klaus, and Robinson, Derek. Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2008.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. tktk
- Mark Solms, ed. Neuropsychoanalysis Conference Proceedings, in press
- Campbell, Lindsay and Wiesen, Anne, ed. Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-Being Through Urban Landscapes. Newtown Square, PA: USDA Forest Service, 2009.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword on nature and health, pp. 1-3.
- Barry, Sue. Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. xi-xvi.
- Payne, Christopher. Asylums. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
Contains: Sacks, Oliver. Foreword, pp. 1-5.
Articles or Chapters reprinted in “Best of” Anthologies
- Sacks, Oliver, “Waterbabies,” in Cynthia Ozick, ed., Best American Essays 1998 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “Brilliant Light,” in James Gleick, ed., Best American Science Writing 2000 (New York: HarperCollins)
- _____, “Brilliant Light,” in David Quammen, ed., Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “Anybody Out There?” in Richard Dawkins, ed., Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “The Mind’s Eye,” in Louis Menand, ed., Best American Essays 2004 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “The Mind’s Eye,” in Philip Zaleski, ed. Best American Spiritual Writing 2004 (New York: Houghton Mifflin). Introduction by Jack Miles.
- _____, “In the River of Consciousness,” in Jonathan Wiener, ed., Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “Greetings from the Island of Stability,” in Alan Lightman, ed.,Best American Science Writing 2005 (New York: HarperCollins)
- _____, “Speed,” in Susan Orlean, ed., Best American Essays 2005 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “Speed,” in Philip Zaleski, ed. Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 (New York: Houghton Mifflin). Introduction by Barry Lopez.
- _____, “Remembering Francis Crick,” in Brian Greene, ed. Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “Recalled to Life,” in Lauren Slater, ed. Best American Essays 2006 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “A Bolt from the Blue,” in Jerome Groopman, ed. Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “The Abyss,” in Sylvia Nasar, ed. Best American Science Writing 2008 (New York: Harper Perennial)
- _____, “The Abyss,” in Philip Zaleski, ed. Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 (New York: Houghton Mifflin) Introduction by Jimmy Carter
- _____, “Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers,” in Elizabeth Kolbert, ed. Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 (New York: Houghton Mifflin)
- _____, “Journey Inside the Brain,” in Natalie Angier, ed. Best American Science Writing 2009 (New York: Harper Perennial)
Periodical Contributions
- Sacks, Oliver. [review of A Textbook of Physiology, edited by John F. Fulton] The British Journal of Physiotherapy, vol. 9, no. 8 (Aug. 1957) p. 19. [Harrow, Middlesex, England]
- Sacks, Oliver. [review of Textbook of Human Anatomy, by Boyd, Le Gros Clark, Hamilton, Yoffey Zuckerman and the late A.B. Appleton. The British Journal of Physiotherapy, vol. 9, no. 9 (Sept. 1957) p. 18.
- Herrmann, Christian, Jr.; Aguilar, Mary Jane; and Sacks, Oliver W. Hereditary Photomyoclonus Associated with Diabetes Mellitus, Deafness, Nephropathy, and Cerebral Dysfunction. Neurology, vol. 14, no. 3 (March 1964) pp. 212-221.
- Sacks, Oliver; Brown, W. Jann; and Aguilar, Mary Jane. Spongy Degeneration of White Matter: Canavan's Sclerosis. Neurology, vol. 15, no. 2 (Feb. 1965) pp. 165-171.
- Sacks, Oliver W. and Brown, W. Jann. The Axonal Dystrophies. Bulletin of the Los Angeles Neurological Society, vol. 31, no. 1 (Jan. 1965) pp. 35-41.
- Sacks, O.W.; Aguilar, M.J.; and Brown, W.J. Hallervorden-Spatz Disease: Its Pathogenesis And Place Among The Axonal Dystrophies. Acta Neuropathologica, vol. 6 (1966) pp. 164-174.
- Sacks, Oliver W. and Herzog, Ivan N. The Rationale of Rectal Biopsy. Neurology, vol. 17 (1967) pp. 292-293.
- Elkind, Arthur H.; Friedman, Arnold P.; Bachman, Arnold; Siegelman, Stanley S.; and Sacks, Oliver W. Silent Retroperitioneal Fibrosis Associated with Methysergide Therapy. Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 206, no. 5 (Oct. 28, 1968) pp. 1041-1044.
- Spataro, J. and Sacks, O.W. Oligodendroglioma with Remote Metastases: Case Report. Journal of Neurosurgery, vol. 28, no. 4 (1968) pp. 373-379.
- Sacks, Oliver W. L-Dopa for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy [letter to the editor]. Lancet, (Sept. 13, 1969) pp. 591-592.
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. East Village Other, vol. 5, no. 27 (June 2, 1970) p. 16. [New York]
- Sacks, O.W.; Messeloff, C.; Schartz, W.; Goldfarb, A.; and Kohl, M. Effects of L-Dopa in Patients With Dementia [letter to the editor]. Lancet (June 6, 1970) p. 1231.
- Sacks, Oliver W. and Kohl, M. Incontinent Nostalgia Induced by L-Dopa [letter to the editor]. Lancet (June 27, 1970) p. 1394.
- Sacks, O.W. and Kohl, M. L-Dopa and Oculogyric Crises [letter to the editor]. Lancet (July 25, 1970) pp. 215-216.
- Sacks, Oliver W.; Messeloff, Charles R.; and Schwartz, Walter F. Long-Term Effects of Levodopa in the Severely Disabled Patient [letter to the editor]. Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 213, no. 13 (Sept. 28, 1970) p. 2270.
- Sacks, O.W.; Ross, S.J.; DePaola, D.P.; and Kohl, M.S. Abnormal Mouth-Movements and Oral Damage Associated with L-Dopa Treatment. Annals of Dentistry, vol. 29, no. 4 (Winter 1970) pp. 130-144.
- Sacks, Oliver W. Parkinsonism – a So-Called New Disease [letter to the editor]. British Medical Journal, vol. 4 (Oct. 9, 1971) p. 111.
- Sacks, Oliver. Parkinson’s Disease & L-Dopa. Beth Abraham Speaks (Winter 1971-72) pp. 8-9. [Bronx, NY]
- Sacks, Oliver W.; Kohl, Marjorie S.; Messeloff, Charles R.; and Schwartz, Walter F. Effects of Levodopa in Parkinsonian Patients with Dementia. Neurology, vol. 22, no. 5 (May 1972) pp. 516-519.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Great Awakening. The Listener, (Oct. 26, 1972)
- Sacks, Oliver. The Mind of A.R. Luria. The Listener, vol. 89, no. 2309 (June 28, 1973) pp. 870-873.
- Sacks, Oliver. Alexander Luria [letter to the editor]. The Listener, (Aug. 9, 1973).
- Sacks, Oliver. Alexander Luria [letter to the editor]. The Listener, (Nov. 1, 1973).
- Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings [letter to the editor]. British Clinical Journal, vol. 2, no. 4 (April 1974) p. 159. [London]
- Sacks, O.W. Communication and Community Among Mental Defectives. Bronx State Hospital Journal, vol. 2 (1974) pp. 113-120. [I have not seen a copy of this one]
- Sacks, Oliver. The Nature of Consciousness. Harper’s Magazine, vol. 251, no. 1507 (December 1975), p. 5.
- [Sacks, Oliver]. Obituary: Professor A.R. Luria: Pioneer Brain Specialist. The Times (Sept. 5, 1977)
- Sacks, Oliver: Article on Tourette’s syndrome, The Times, March 1978. [I have not seen a copy of this one, and there is a question as to whether it exists or not]
- Sacks, O.W. and Carolan, P.C. EEG Findings in Post-Encephalitic and Tourettic Patients. Proceedings of Metropolitan EEG Society, (1979) [New York]. [I have not seen a copy of this one]
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Tourette Syndrome Association Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 3 (July 1979) p. 4.
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Tourette Syndrome Association Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 4 (Oct. 1980)
- Sacks, Oliver. Witty Ticcy Ray. London Review of Books, vol. 3, no. 5 (March 19 – April 1, 1981) pp. 3-5.
- Sacks, Oliver. Ray – A Case History. Tourette Syndrome Association Newsletter, (April 1981) pp. 9-10.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Leg. London Review of Books, vol. 4, no. 11 (June 17-30, 1982) pp. 3-5.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. London Review of Books (May 19 – June 2, 1983) pp. 3-5.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Origin of “Awakenings.” British Medical Journal, vol. 287 (Dec. 24-31, 1983) pp. 1968-69.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Lost Mariner. New York Review of Books, vol. 31, no. 2 (Feb. 16, 1984) pp. 14-19.
- Sacks, Oliver. “Put Away” [review of Managing the Mind: A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain by Michael Donnelly]. British Medical Journal, vol. 288 (Feb. 25, 1984) p. 635.
- Sacks, Oliver. Musical Ears. London Review of Books, vol. 6, no. 8 (May 3-16, 1984) p. 7.
- Sacks, Oliver W. and Schwartz, Walter. Clinical Curio: An Original Juvenile Diabetic. British Medical Journal (April 28, 1984)
- Sacks, Oliver. The Bull on the Mountain. New York Review of Books, vol. 31, no. 11 (June 28, 1984) pp. 23, 26-30.
- Sacks, Oliver W. Clinical Curio: Phantom Finger. British Medical Journal (July 14, 1984)
- Sacks, Oliver. Hands. New York Review of Books, vol. 31, no. 17 (Nov. 8, 1984) p. 15
- Sacks, Oliver. The Twins. New York Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 3 (Feb. 28, 1985) pp. 16-20.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Autist Artist. New York Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 7 (April 25, 1985) pp. 17-21.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Tilted. Sciences, vol. 25, no. 3 (May-June 1985) pp. 16-19.
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. New York Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 10 (June 13, 1985) p. 37.
- Sacks, Oliver. Excesses. Granta, no. 16 (Summer 1985) pp. 7-22.
- Sacks, Oliver. The President’s Speech. New York Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 13 (Aug. 15, 1985) p. 29.
- Sacks, Oliver. Mysteries of the Deaf. New York Review of Books, vol. 33, no. 5 (March 27, 1986) pp. 23-33.
- Sacks, Oliver. ‘Mysteries of the Deaf’: An Exchange [letter to the editor]. New York Review of Books, vol. 33, no. 16 (March 27, 1986) p. 69.
- Sacks, Oliver. Bound Together in Fantasy and Crime [review of The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace]. New York Times Book Review (Oct. 19, 1986) pp. 3, 40.
- Sacks, Oliver. Tics. New York Review of Books, vol. 34, no. 1 (Jan. 29, 1987) pp. 37-41.
- Sacks, Oliver. Insider’s Story [review of Ivan: Living with Parkinson's Disease, by I. Vaughan]. British Medical Journal, vol. 294 [issue no. 6570] (Feb. 21, 1987) p. 503.
- Sacks, Oliver. What It’s Like to Be a Child [review of The Spontaneous Gesture: Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott, edited by F. Robert Rodman; and Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis, by D.W. Winnicott]. New York Times Book Review (May 24, 1987) pp. 3, 19, 21.
- Sacks, Oliver and Wasserman, Robert. The Case of the Colorblind Painter. New York Review of Books, vol. 34, no. 18 (Nov. 19, 1987) pp. 25-34.
- Sacks, Oliver. Response to “The deconstruction of self.” Journal of Contemplative Psychotherapy, vol. 4 (1987). [I have not seen a copy of this one]
- Sacks, Oliver. The Revolution of the Deaf. New York Review of Books, vol. 35, no. 9 (June 2, 1988) pp. 23-28.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Divine Curse. Life (Sept. 1988) pp. 94-102.
- Sacks, Oliver. Travel Happy (1961). Antaeus, no. 61 (Autumn 1988) pp. 391-406.
- Sacks, O.; Wasserman, R.L.; Zeki, S.; and Siegel, R.M. Sudden Color-Blindness of Cerebral Origin. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts (1988?) [I have not seen a copy of the actual publication of this one, only the manuscript]
- Sacks, Oliver. Canada: Pause (1960). Antaeus, no. 62 (Spring 1989) pp. 192-200.
- Sacks, Oliver. Tourette Syndrome in Japan. Tourette Syndrome Association Newsletter, vol. 17, no. 3 (Fall 1989)
- Sacks, Oliver. [Best books of 1989] American Health (Jan.-Feb. 1990) p.
- Sacks, Oliver. Alzheimer’s and Creativity [letter to the editor]. Art & Antiques (Jan. 1990) p.
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor] Scientific American (March 1990) p. 12.
- Sacks, Oliver. Neurology and the Soul. New York Review of Books, vol. 37, no. 18 (Nov. 22, 1990) pp. 44-50.
- Sacks, Oliver. Neurological Dreams. MD, vol. 35, no. 2 (Feb. 1991) pp. 29-32. [reprinted in Barrett, Deirdre (ed.). Trauma and Dreams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. 212-216.
- Sacks, Oliver. Forsaking the Mentally Ill. New York Times (Feb. 13, 1991) p.
- Sacks, Oliver. The 'Dark, Paradoxical Gift' [a review of Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John M. Hull]. New York Review of Books (April 11, 1991) pp. 7-8.
- Sacks, Oliver and Tomaino, Connie. Music Therapy is Vital in Neurological Cases [letter to the editor]. New York Times (June 4, 1991) p.
- Sacks, Oliver. The ‘Dark, Paradoxical Gift’ [a review of Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John M. Hull]. Neurology, no. 41 (Sept. 1991) p. 1532-3. [reprinted from New York Review of Books (April 11, 1991)]
- Sacks, Oliver and Tomaino, Concetta M. Music and Neurological Disorder. International Journal of Arts Medicine, vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 1991) pp. 10-12.
- Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings Reconsidered. Dolentium Hominum: Journal of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, [Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference: The Human Mind] (Nov. 15-17, 1990) vol. 6, no. 1 [issue 16] (1991) pp. 101-105.
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to Dear Abby column]. New York Daily News (Dec. 29, 1991) p.
- Sacks, Oliver. Phantom Limbs [letter to the editor]. New York Review of Books, vol. 39, no. 3 (Jan. 30, 1992) pp. 45-46.
- Sacks, Oliver. Clinical Curios: Phantom Faces. British Medical Journal, vol. 304 (Feb. 8, 1992) p. 364.
- Sacks, Oliver. A Neurologist’s Notebook: A Surgeon’s Life. New Yorker, vol. 68, no. 4 (March 16, 1992) pp. 85-94.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Last Hippie. New York Review of Books, vol. 39, no. 6 (March 26, 1992) pp. 53-62.
- Sacks, Oliver. A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Landscape of His Dreams. New Yorker, vol. 68, no. 23 (July 27, 1992) pp. 56-66.
- Sacks, Oliver. Defining Consciousness [letter to the editor]. Nature, vol. 358, issue no. 6388 (Aug. 20, 1992) p. 618.
- S., O. [letter to the editor]. Ray & Tom [personal newsletter, 117 E. 11th St., NYC] (ca. Dec. 17, 1992) p. [3].
- Sacks, Oliver. Tourette’s Syndrome and Creativity. British Medical Journal, vol. 305, issue no. 6868 (Dec. 19-26, 1992) pp. 1515-1516.
- Sacks, Oliver. Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf. Kaleidoscope: International Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts, and Disability, no. 26 (Winter/Spring 1993) pp. 7-13. [excerpts from 1989 book Seeing Voices]
- Sacks, Oliver. [review of Mental Lives: Case Studies in Cognition, edited by Ruth Campbell]. Neurology, no. 43 (Jan. 1993) p. 240.
- Sacks, Oliver. Narrative and Medicine. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, vol. 60, no. 2 (March 1993) pp. 127-131.
- Sacks, Oliver. Making Up the Mind [ a review of Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. Edelman]. New York Review of Books, vol. 11, no. 7 (April 8, 1993) pp. 42-49.
- Sacks, Oliver. To See and Not See: A Neurologist’s Notebook. New Yorker (May 10, 1993) pp. 59-73.
- Sacks, Oliver. Remembering South Kensington. Discover, vol. 14, no. 11 (Nov. 1993) pp. 78-80.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Poet of Chemistry [review of Humphry Davy: Science and Power]. New York Review of Books, vol. 40, no. 18 (Nov. 4, 1993) pp. 50-56.
- Sacks, Oliver W. [letter to the editor]. Science, vol. 262 (Nov. 5, 1993) p. 826.
- Sacks, O.W.; Fookson, O.; Berkinblit, M.; Smetanin, B; Siegel, R.M.; and Poizner, H. Movement Perturbations Due To Tics Do Not Affect Accuracy On Pointing To Remembered Locations In 3-D Space In A Subject With Tourette’s Syndrome. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, vol. 19, part 1 (Nov. 7-12, 1993) item 228.7.
- Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars: A Neurologist’s Notebook. New Yorker, vol. 69, no. 44 (Dec. 27, 1993 – Jan. 3, 1994) pp. 106-125.
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor in reply to letters about his article "An Anthropologist on Mars: A Neurologist's Notebook" in the New Yorker, vol. 69, no. 44 (Dec. 27, 1993 – Jan. 3, 1994), so this is a later, ca. Jan. 1994 issue.
- Sacks, Oliver. A New Vision of the Mind. International Review of Neurobiology, vol. 37 (1994) pp. 347-368. [This issue is possibly called: Sporns, Olaf and Tononi, Giulio (eds.). Selectionism and the Brain (San Diego: Academic Press, 1994).
- Sacks, Oliver. Prodigies: A Neurologist's Notebook. New Yorker, vol. 70, no. 43 (Jan. 9, 1995) pp. 44-65.
- Sacks, Oliver. Coelacanth Dated [letter to the editor]. Nature, vol. 373 (Feb. 9, 1995) p. 468.
- Sacks, Oliver. A Surgeon’s Life. Family Therapy Networker (May-June 1995) pp. 62-63.
- Sacks, Oliver. Musical Ability [letter to the editor]. Science, vol. 268 (May 5, 1995) p. 621
- Sacks, Oliver. Rare and Singular Talent [letter to the editor]. Science, vol. 269 (Sept. 15, 1995) p. 1498.
- Sacks, Oliver. Gowers’ Memory. Neurology, no. 46 (May 1996) pp. 1467-69.
- Sacks, Oliver. Eat, Drink and Be Wary [review of Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes]. New Yorker, vol. 73, no. 8 (April 14, 1997) pp. 82-85.
- Sacks, Oliver. Water Babies. New Yorker, vol. 73, no. 13 (May 26, 1997) pp. 44-45.
- Sacks, Oliver. [review of Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius by Peter Ostwald]. Globe and Mail (May 31, 1997) p.
- Sacks, Oliver. Medicine and Books [review of Why Michael Couldn't Hit by Harold Klawans]. British Medical Journal, vol. 314 (June 14, 1997) p. 1772.
- Sacks, Oliver. Doug Stern Swimming Camp Review. Triathlete, no. 161 (Sept. 1997) p. 10.
- Sacks, Oliver. A Neurologist’s Perspective on the Aging Brain. Archives of Neurology, vol. 54 (Oct. 1997) pp. 1211-1214.
- Sacks, Oliver. Everything in Its Place. New York Times Magazine (April 18, 1999) pp. 126-130.
- Sacks, Oliver. Hard Times for Curious Minds. New York Times (May 13, 1999)
- Sacks, Oliver. Looking Back. Voices: Newsletter of the Residents of Beth Abraham Hospital, vol. 2, no. 4 (July 1999) p. 8.
- Sacks, Oliver. Medicine’s Brave New World. We Magazine, vol. 3, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1999) pp. 26-27.
- Sacks, Oliver. Ways to Avoid Medical Mistakes [letter to the editor]. New York Times (Dec. 12, 1999)
- Sacks, Oliver. Brilliant Light. New Yorker, vol. 75, no. 39 (Dec. 20, 1999) pp. 56-73.
- Sacks, Oliver. Social “Mentalizing” Abilities in Mental Patients [letter to the editor]. Science, vol. 287, no. 5451 (Jan. 14, 2000) p. 234.
- Sacks, Oliver. Second Opinion [letter to the editor]. We Magazine, vol. 4, no. 3 (May-June 2000) p. 10.
- Sacks, Oliver. Weighing the Neurological Complexities of Long-term Levodopa Use [letter to the editor]. Archives of Neurology, vol. 57 (Oct. 2000) p. 1531.
- Sacks, Oliver. Leaving Nirvana. New York Review of Books, vol. 48, no. 5 (March 29, 2001) pp. 4-5.
- Sacks, Oliver. A Compulsive Collecting Behavior Following an A-com Aneurysmal Rupture [letter to the editor]. Neurology, no. 56 (April 2001) p. 1118.
- Sacks, Oliver. Inside the Executive Brain. New York Review of Books, vol. 48, no. 7 (April 26, 2001) pp. 46-48.
- Sacks, Oliver. Henry Cavendish: An Early Case of Asperger’s Syndrome? Neurology, vol. 57, no. 7 (Oct. 9, 2001) p. 1347.
- Sacks, Oliver. Let Us Count the Ways. New York Times Magazine (Nov. 11, 2001) p. 109.
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Science News, vol. 160 (Dec. 15, 2001) p. 371.
- Sacks, Oliver. Remembering the Lake Jeff. Towne Crier (Feb. 19-March 11, 2002)
- Cox, Paul Alan and Sacks, Oliver W. Cycad Neurotoxins, Consumption of Flying Foxes, and ALS-PDC Disease in Guam. Neurology, no. 58 (March 2002) pp. 956-959.
- Sacks, Oliver. When Music Heals. Parade Magazine (March 31, 2002) pp. 4-5.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Case of Anna H. New Yorker (Oct. 7, 2002) pp. 62-73.
- Sacks, Oliver. Bringing Scientists to Life [review of Eurekas and Euphorias by Walter Gratzer]. Nature, vol. 419 (Oct. 24, 2002) p. 786.
- Sacks, Oliver. Anybody Out There? Natural History (Nov. 2002) pp. 38-40.
- Sacks, Oliver. Aubrey – and Atavism. International Herald Tribune (Nov. 22, 2002) Ha’aretz Week’s End supplement, p. B1.
- Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. American Scholar (Winter 2002) p. 157.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Mind’s Eye. The New Yorker, July 28, 2003, pp. 48-59.
- Sacks, Oliver. In the River of Consciousness, The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2004.
- Sacks, Oliver. Greetings from the Island of Stability, New York Times Op-Ed, February 8, 2004.
- Sacks, Oliver. Speed, The New Yorker, August 23, 2004, pp. 60-69.
- Sacks, Oliver. On Memory, The Threepenny Review, volume 100, Winter 2004.
- Murch, SJ, Cox, PA, Banack SA, Steele, JC and Sacks OW. Occurrence of B-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) in ALS/PDC patients from Guam. Acta Neurol Scand 2004: 110: 267-269.
- Sacks, Oliver and Melanie Shulman. Steroid Dementia: An Overlooked Diagnosis? Neurology, 2005; 64:707-709 February 2005.
- Sacks, Oliver. Remembering Francis Crick, The New York Review of Books, March 24, 2005, 34-36.
- Sacks, Oliver. Me and My Hybrid, The New York Times Op-Ed, March 25, 2005.
- Sacks, Oliver. Remembering Thom Gunn, The Threepenny Review, June 2005.
- Sacks, Oliver. Recalled to Life, The New Yorker, October 31, 2005.
- Sacks, Oliver and Joel A. Vilensky. Waking to a New Flu Threat, The New York Times Op-Ed, November 16, 2005.
- Sacks, Oliver. Hawaiian Tooth, Alimentum, vol. 1, winter 2006.
- Sacks, Oliver. Stereo Sue, The New Yorker, June 19, 2006, pp. 64-73.
- Sacks, Oliver and Ralph M. Siegel. Seeing is believing as brain reveals its adaptability, Nature letter to the editor, vol. 441, no. 7097 (June 29, 2006) p. 1048.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Power of Music, Brain, vol. 129, no. 10 (October 2006), pp. 2528-2532.
- Sacks, Oliver. Replacing Resources, New Scientist letter to the editor, vol. 194, no. 2609 (June 23, 2007), p. 22.
- Sacks, Oliver. Botanists on Park, “Talk of the Town,” The New Yorker, August 13, 2007, p. 25.
- Sacks, Oliver. A Bolt from the Blue, The New Yorker, June 23, 2007, pp. 38-42.
- Sacks, Oliver. The Abyss, The New Yorker, September 24, 2007, pp.100-112.
- Sacks, Oliver and Joy Hirsch. A Neurology of Belief (editorial), Annals of Neurology, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 129-30.
- Sacks, Oliver. A Journey Inside the Brain, The New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008, pp. 38-41.
- Sacks, Oliver. Influences: Alexander Luria. “Life Changing Books,” New Scientist, vol. 198, no. 2652, April 19, 2008, p. 5.
- Sacks, Oliver. A Summer of Madness, The New York Review of Books, September 25, 2008, pp.57-61.
- Sacks, Oliver. Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers, The New York Review of Books, November 20, 2008, pp. 64-67.
- Sacks, Oliver. Michael Powell’s Neurological Cinema, Lancet, vol. 373, March 21, 2009, p. 1. [reprinted in Film Comment, vol. 45, no. 3, May/June 2009, p. 22-23]
- Sacks, Oliver. The Lost Virtues of the Asylum, The New York Review of Books, September 24, 2009, pp. 50-52.
- Devinsky, Julie; Devinsky, Orrin; and Sacks, Oliver. Klüver Bucy Syndrome, Hypersexuality, and the Law, Neurocase, in press.
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