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“If you are not already familiar with the writing of Oliver Sacks, this volume is a lovely way to acquaint yourself with it. Warm, edifying, highly personal essays.”- The Charleston Post and Courier will be keenly missed, not only for the elegance and potency of his writing, but for his critically important championing of science in an age of science denial.

with a voice, breadth of curiosity and kinship with life all his own. “A fitting coda to an exemplary literary and medical career, displaying the essential humanity and spaciousness of mind that his readers have long come to expect. "Everything in Its Placeis a wondrous read in its entirety, irradiating Sacks’s kaleidoscopic curiosity across subjects.”-Maria Popova, Brain Pickings As readers we can rejoice that, while cancer may have claimed his body, his voice continues to ring out.” -The Scientist The Shakespeare of science writing might suffice, but Sacks ultimately defies comparison to bygone or even contemporary authors. “Sacks further secures his legacy with this most recent collection of his work. This final posthumous collection provides one last peek into the author’s generous, curious, and brilliant mind.” -Library Journal Sacks writes with his characteristic compassion and attention to detail. Our best chance for the future, we may feel, is that there may be others among us like this uncommon, passionate, and enlightened man .” - Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books and it becomes increasingly clear that Sacks was that boy to the very end of his days, engaging, eagerly and with a never-ending sense of wonder, not only with science but with its history and the people who made it. an unusual boy, one who had, as he puts it, an “overwhelming sense of Truth and Beauty”. “Extraordinarily touching-not lacking in his habitual energy and driven curiosity, but somehow vulnerable, even fragile. showcases the neurologist's infinitely curious mind." -People Magazine ”- Daniel Menaker, The New York Times Book Review

It’s hard to call to mind one dull passage in his work-one dull sentence, for that matter. He was and will remain a brilliant singularity. Life bursts through all of Oliver Sacks’s writing.