Monday, December 13 2010
None Are So Blind As Those Who Will Not See: ‘The Mind’s Eye’ by Oliver Sacks
In this telling of his own encounter with blindness, the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks reminds us that there are few human failings worse than taking for granted life and its manifold hidden miracles.
Thursday, April 8 2010
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
Hustvedt's book raises the timeless, ultimately unanswerable question of what it means to be an embodied self in the world.
Monday, June 9 2008
20 Questions: Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby's electronic impulses are fed by neurological brainstorms generated by the likes of Oliver Sacks and the artists and scientists of TED. PopMatters' 20 Questions gets a zap from Dolby's electrifying fingertips.
Tuesday, November 6 2007
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Music is grace and joy and not easily subjected to cold clinical analysis, not even when the writer is someone as gifted as Oliver Sacks.
