Reviews round-up
Letters
by Oliver Sacks
3 of 4 critics positive
5 reviews: 1 rave, 2 positives, 1 mixed; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Rave
Read the review ↗“among the best things I've read all year”
The Early Loves of Oliver Sacks: Medicine, Muscles and Motorbikes (Published 2024)
Positive
Read the review ↗“a restless intellect roving far beyond what we saw in his books”
Collected letters of Oliver Sacks offer a glimpse into the neurologist’s mind
Positive
Read the review ↗“valuable insight into a curious mind”
Letters by Oliver Sacks review – valuable insight into a curious mind
Mixed
Read the review ↗“lonely, self-pitying and yet idiosyncratic man”
‘Being a genius is very isolating’: Oliver Sacks’s candid letters
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
