Dear Readers, We hope you are staying healthy and safe in these extremely difficult times. Reading, as we all are, about the spread of Covid-19 inevitably reminds us of the [...]

Hello friends, Dr. Sacks would be thrilled to know that a newly identified species of fern has been named Ceradenia sacksii, "Sacks' waxy-gland fern" by botanist Michael Sundue. This is a [...]

We are very excited to announce that Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, a Ric Burns documentary on the life and work of Oliver Sacks,  premiered last week at the Telluride Film [...]

  Dear readers, Happy July 9th (the 86th anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s birth)! We are very excited to announce that Laura J. Snyder has begun working on the definitive biography of Oliver [...]

  Did you know that Oliver Sacks once bought a house during a swim around New York's City Island? He lived there for over twenty years. In his upcoming essay [...]

Everything in Its Place, the final collection of essays by Oliver Sacks, will be available on April 23, 2019. Publishers Weekly calls it "a treat for the chronically curious." They write: [...]

  We are proud to announce a final collection of essays--many never before published, coming your way on April 23, 2019! Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales, [...]

Oliver loved to celebrate his birthday, July 9. He would start the day with a swim, and then we would round up the usual suspects and throw a party with [...]

Oliver Sacks’s animated mind is becoming an animated film, and we hope you will be a part of it! Dempsey Rice, the filmmaker who brought us so many fascinating interviews [...]