If you’ve read Uncle Tungsten, Dr. Sacks’s memoir of his boyhood, you may remember that his grandparents Marcus and Chaya Landau, who raised eighteen children at the turn of the twentieth…
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Wonders Large and Small
Small wonder: Moss microscopy by Magdalena Turzanska January 1, 2014 Dear Friends, Only a week or two ago, it was warm enough in New York City for Dr. Sacks to…
Thank you, readers!
This Thanksgiving, we thank you, dear readers, for your support. And since Thanksgiving is time for pie, here’s one of our favorites: Octo-pie! …
Freedom to Read
What do Rachel Carson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, William Styron, Toni Morrison, Galileo, Mark Twain, Judy Blume and Madeleine L’Engle have in common?They all wrote great books—books which…
On Turning 80
The last few weeks have been exciting! Hallucinations just came out in paperback in the US and UK, and is already on the New York Times bestseller list. Dr. Sacks turned 80…
Write On!
Forty years ago today, the first edition of Awakenings was published in England. It was the second book by a little-known doctor, Oliver Sacks (the first was Migraine), and it told the extraordinary…
Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness
President Obama, marking National Mental Health Awareness Month, has called for an end to the shame and stigma attached to mental illness. As activist Elyn Saks puts it, “there is…
Now Hear This!
April 3 is our good friend Jane Goodall’s birthday—happy gold (79) birthday to you, Jane! If you are interested in hearing Jane Goodall speak, please visit her website. Also this month there are…
“Words, words, words.”
Dr. Sacks has just returned from a three-day visit to the University of Warwick, where he gave a lecture on the importance of the case history in medicine—and saw the Royal…
Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts announce Oliver Sacks festival
Today, New York Live Arts announces their first annual festival of arts and ideas in New York City, a series called Live Ideas. The inaugural festival, from April 17-21, 2013, is…
Happy 50th, New York Review of Books!
Happy anniversary to our great friends at the New York Review of Books, who are celebrating 50 years of publishing wide-ranging, thought-provoking essays and criticism, ranging from art and politics to…
Happy Holidays!
12/12/12 Dear Readers, Thanks to you, Hallucinations is a New York Times bestseller! Coming up this week: Dr. Sacks discusses his take on Eben Alexander’s book Proof of Heaven, online…
Hallucinations now available as book, e-book, and audiobook!
What an exciting week! Hallucinations is now on sale (as a book, e-book, and audiobook) in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Over the next few weeks, you will likely hear…
Hot off the press! Hallucinations, phantoms, and more
We here in the Sacks office are eagerly awaiting publication of Dr. Sacks’s new book,Hallucinations. The very first copy reached his hands today! In the US and Canada, as well…
What I Learned from Hallucinogens
This week’s New Yorker (issue dated August 27) features an excerpt from Dr. Sacks’s new book, Hallucinations. At newyorker.com, Dr. Sacks talks about his psychedelic days in an audio interview….
Björk, Musicophilia, and Face Blindness
A sneak preview of Hallucinations will run in the New Yorker’s issue dated August 27th, on stands August 20, 2012 (barring last-minute scheduling changes by the magazine). The book itself will be published…
Linnaeus and (Out of) Body Experiences
Hallucinations has gone off to the printers, and will be published on November 6! Here’s what the jacket looks like, thanks to designer Hailey Wojcik: Dr. Sacks just…
The Man Who Forgot How to Read
This coming weekend, a documentary film inspired by Dr. Sacks’s latest book, The Mind’s Eye, will be broadcast on BBC World News. “The Man Who Forgot How to Read” explores face blindness, stereo…
Giving the Gift of Music
This week, something extraordinary happened. Director Michael Rossato-Bennett posted a clip from his new documentary, “Alive Inside,” on YouTube. Over the next couple of hours, he watched the number of…
Ferns, chocolate, and capybaras
Spring is on the way, and it’s time to take a journey to the lovely warm climes of Oaxaca, Mexico! (We pronounce it “Wah-HAH-ka.”) Dr. Sacks’s Oaxaca Journal has just…