by NRB | 1 Oct 2019 | Non-fiction |
Oliver Sacks – neurologist, philosopher, writer … Lawrence Weschler reveals the ‘conflicted brilliance’ of the famous doctor in this biographical memoir. In the early 1980s, 29-year-old Lawrence Weschler had just become a staff writer at the...
by NRB | 1 Aug 2019 | Non-fiction |
This second posthumous collection of essays again reveals the passions and intellectual range of the bestselling neurologist, Oliver Sacks. Those who knew of Oliver Sacks as the practising neurologist who wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and...
by NRB | 24 Jan 2018 | Giveaways |
Keep cool through the summer heat with these fab books. To win all four, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm date 2018 with Summer #4 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email. As we cannot afford to post giveaway...
by NRB | 19 Dec 2017 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
For the first time in NRB’s history, Jean and Linda both have the same title on their books-of-the-year lists. What could it be? Read on to find out … Jean’s picks (As I was one of the judges for the Ned Kelly Awards this year, I read a lot of wonderful Australian...
by NRB | 14 Dec 2017 | Non-fiction |
Oliver Sacks continues to enrich our understanding of ourselves and our world. In the first essay of this posthumous collection (Sacks died in 2015), ‘Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers’, Charles Darwin’s son Francis is quoted on his father: ‘[it was] … as though...
by NRB | 16 Jun 2015 | Non-fiction |
This memoir closes the loop on a remarkable life. Oliver Sacks found fame writing case studies of his patients. In Awakenings, he wrote about his post-encephalitic patients’ revival from decades-long catatonia after he prescribed them a drug called L-Dopa. Sacks has...
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