Oliver Sacks

Letters by Oliver Sacks review: Great light cast on neurologist, author and humanist

Kate Edgar’s compilation paints a detailed portrait of a sometimes shy, uncertain, excitable human who was also a deeply compassionate and open-hearted outsider

David Byrne: ‘I couldn't write songs during the depth of the pandemic’

The Talking Heads frontman is opening an exhibition with sketches spanning 20 years

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life – A remarkable documentary

Film review: It may not be innovative, but this biography is still extraordinary

No doctor, no pharmacy, no supermarket: I’m moving to an island

I will be living in a draughty cottage on Cape Clear with books and a lot of thinking for company

Writer, heal thyself – An Irishman’s Diary on literature and medicine

Quick, stress-reducing strategies to help you better deal with challenges and anxieties

By practicing managing your emotions, you’ll experience a sense of freedom in your life

‘I have to credit my parents tolerating me being a total weirdo’

In Conversation: Musicians Radie Peat and Ian Lynch

Obituary: Isabelle Rapin

Swiss-born child neurologist advanced notion of autism as being part of a spectrum

Culture Shock: When artists are faced with the end, how do they respond?

It’s tempting to read ‘Blackstar’ as David Bowie’s swansong. But he was already writing his next album

Culture Shock: The trouble with memories

Simon McBurney, Robert Lepage and Brian Friel all know that, whether they escape us, prove false or exert a destructive hold, memories always keep us in their grip

Neurologist who touched a wide audience

Oliver Sacks: July 9th, 1933 - August 30th, 2015

Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer, dies aged 82

‘Awakenings’ author known for accounts of unusual medical and psychiatric conditions

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks dies from cancer

Intellectual curiosity saw him write about aging, amnesia, colour, deafness and dreams

Review: The Well Rested Terrorist

A “live concept album” from alt-pop act Maud in Cahoots uses theatricality to expose a world of surfaces