Sacks has left behind Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales, a collection of 34 pieces, some of them previously unpublished-a reminder of the breadth of his professional expertise and the depth of his personal passions.Īdmirers of Sacks’ previous books, like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, will most enjoy the section titled “Clinical Tales.” In these essays, Sacks revisits some of the subjects of the medical case studies for which he’s best known: the way neurological disorders can alter dreams in striking ways, or whether out-of-body and near-death experiences are hallucinations or divine visions.īut Sacks doesn’t confine himself to tinkering with his previous work. Happily, that’s true of prominent neurologist Oliver Sacks, who’s been gone since 2015. When an admired writer dies, one consolation is that his passing doesn’t necessarily mean the end of his appearance in print.
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