News & Events
News & Events
Women and Education
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 [...]
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 [...]
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