Oliver Sacks in The New Yorker

Dr. Oliver Sacks outside his childhood home, in 1986.PHOTOGRAPH BY SAHM DOHERTY / THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION / GETTY

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and writer, died on Sunday at the age of eighty-two. He was a treasured writer here at The New Yorker. Sacks wrote his first piece for the magazine, “A Surgeon’s Life,” in 1992; it was a profile of a doctor with Tourette’s syndrome. From then on, often under the rubric “A Neurologist’s Notebook,” Sacks explored both the extraordinary ways in which the brain and mind can change and the courage of the individuals who adapt to those changes. His writing testified to human frailty and human strength.

You can see everything Sacks wrote for The New Yorker here. And, below, you’ll find a smaller selection of his work.

A Surgeon’s Life” (March 16, 1992): A doctor with Tourette’s syndrome; subscribers only.

An Anthropologist on Mars” (December 27, 1993): How Temple Grandin sees the world.

Brilliant Light” (December 20, 1999): Memories of a scientific childhood.

A Bolt from the Blue” (July 27, 2007): After being struck by lightning, a man develops a new passion for music.

The Abyss” (September 24, 2007): How a musical mind survives amnesia.

A Man of Letters” (June 28, 2010): Why was the morning paper suddenly in a foreign language?

Face-Blind” (August 30, 2010): Why do some people find recognizing faces so difficult?

Altered States” (August 27, 2012): Self-experiments in chemistry.

The Catastrophe” (April 27, 2015): Spalding Gray’s brain injury.