News & Events
News & Events
An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
📷 Photo by Rosalie Winard Q&A with Susan R. Barry, author of Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks. Susan R. Barry is professor emerita of [...]
Happy New Year!
We hope you’re all taking time to rest and connect with loved ones. The end of a year can be a time for reflection and gratitude, and we recently [...]
NBC Orders Medical Drama Based on Life and Work of Oliver Sacks
We are excited to share that NBC has greenlit Dr. Wolf, a medical drama TV series inspired by the life and work of Oliver Sacks, with Star Trek's Zachary [...]
A Beautiful Gift Edition of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
We're thrilled to share that there's a gorgeous new edition of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat out from Everyman's Library. If you follow us on [...]
Awakenings Recording Now Available
The world premiere recording of Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s opera, Awakenings, is now available to stream on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. Set in a Bronx hospital [...]
Remembering Oliver Sacks
Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. July 9, 1933 - August 30, [...]
“Meeting” Oliver Sacks (And Happy Birthday)
July 9 would have been Oliver Sacks’s 90th birthday, and as readers of Uncle Tungsten might know, element 90 is thorium, named after the Norse god of thunder. Oliver [...]
Dementia: Unexpected Stories of the Mind
Oliver Sacks’s closest friend and schoolmate Jonathan Miller died of dementia in 2019. The photo above shows them together in New York City. In a new five-part series from [...]
A One-Night-Only East Coast Premiere of Tobias Picker’s “Awakenings”
We are excited to announce that Odyssey Opera, in partnership with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), will present the East Coast premiere of Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev [...]
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