by NRB | 7 Jul 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
This will be the last of my prison despatches – that is, columns to do with my two-months-plus time in hospital. Unlike some patients who are able to sit in their beds or on their chairs and stare at the walls or occupy themselves with television, I’d be crawling...
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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