... reading? Music, Language, and the Brain by a colleague of mine called [Aniruddh] Patel. He himself is a good musician as well as a neuroscientist and a nice writer [with] a good feeling for language. A book [that] absolutely staggered me...

Perennial Library has issued in paperback the neurologist Oliver Sacks' two most recent books: "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales" -- the surprise best seller of 1986 -- comprises 24 case histories, which Samuel Shem described in...

With No Country For Old Men's cinematic debut it was perhaps inevitable that bookstores would see a surge of popular interest in the already-popular work of Cormac McCarthy. And in the East Village, where the reading of novels is hardly the greatest danger posed...

Like an ambassador from an alien land populated with smarter, taller and richer blond bombshells, Louise T. Blouin MacBain stood behind a podium in a Columbia University auditorium. She asked the assembled spectators if the leaders of the planet Earth did “not require a new,...

In the following essay, Wiltshire provides a survey of Sacks's writings and attributes his success to his “capacity to turn deficits into wonders.”

In the following essay, McRae traces the origins of Sacks's “neurology of identity,” a term given to his treatment of neurological patients as individuals.

In the following essay, Diamond finds The Island of the Colorblind an insightful and well-written “account of patients with two neurological disorders but also of island plants, islands as laboratories of plant and animal evolution, and many other aspects of islands.”