The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

“Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique.”

Legendary neurologist Oliver Sacks on the building blocks of personhood and narrative as the pillar of identity:

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

Bill Hayes

“The most we can do is to write — intelligently, creatively, evocatively — about what it is like living in the world at this time.” ~ Oliver Sacks

Bill Hayes’s beautiful love letter to New York, Oliver Sacks, and love itself:

Gratitude

Oliver Sacks

“I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

The late, great, sorely missed Oliver Sacks on gratitude, the measure of living, and the dignity of dying:

A Leg to Stand On

Oliver Sacks

The incredible story of how, after tearing a leg muscle while running from a raging bull in a Norwegian fjord, young Oliver Sacks saved his own life through the power of literature and song – perhaps the most beautiful and moving testament to the life-saving power of music ever written:

On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks’s autobiography of love, lunacy, and a life fully lived is a life-changing read – I mean this with my whole heart:

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

“We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well.”

Visionary neurologist Oliver Sacks on what hallucinations reveal about how our minds work