Oliver Sacks on the mystery of a woman who lost her ability to recognize familiar objects by sight.
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks , who died in 2015, was a neurologist and the author of books including “ Musicophilia ,” “ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ,” and “ On the Move .” His work has inspired numerous adaptations for film, opera, and theatre, by artists such as Peter Brook, Harold Pinter, Michael Nyman, and Tobias Picker. His posthumous volume of selected correspondence, “ Letters ,” spans his five decades as a physician and writer.
Read more on The New Yorker →3 picks · 1993–2002
Featured Picks
Oliver Sacks’s 1999 memoir of his early years. “Many of my childhood memories are of metals: these seemed to exert a power on me from the start.”
With a simple operation, a man who had been blind since childhood miraculously regained his vision, Oliver Sacks writes. Then he had to learn to see a world he no longer knew.