The famous neurologist and author devoted his life to revealing his patients’ humanity. He struggled harder to reveal himself ...

Oliver Sacks’s Letters, at 752 pages, is anachronistic in two respects. First, there is the spectacle of six decades’ worth of correspondence, meticulously preserved (Oliver Sacks cloned every ...

Oliver Sacks is one of the few scientists who has accomplished this with his chosen subject matter, the brain: he skyrocketed to fame in 1973 with his book Awakenings and has remained a household name ...