The 100 best nonfiction books: No 12 – Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (1973)
Oliver Sacks’s moving account of how, as a doctor in the late 1960s, he revived patients who had been neurologically ‘frozen’ by sleeping sickness reverberates to this day
I'm only a tenth of the way through my Guardian/Observer list, and as I revisit old favourites from week to week I find my contemporary verdict refracted through past readings
The history of publishing is packed with pioneering entrepreneurs who would have revelled in the opportunities of the digital revolution, writes Robert McCrum
The Booker prize's US amendment was a long time coming
Robert McCrum
Robert McCrum: The self-styled 'most important literary prize in the English-speaking world' has finally ironed out the disabling anomaly that threatened to undermine its global significance
Midsummer Night's Dreaming: the RSC takes a smattering of Google fairy dust
Robert McCrum: An internet production of Shakespeare's classic comedy is not so much the RSC dumbing down as Google flaunting its cultural credentials – and that can only be a good thing
Gatsby may be great, but F Scott Fitzgerald is greater
Baz Luhrmann's film of The Great Gatsby looks set to entertain, but it's Fitzgerald's life story that has to be seen to be believed, writes Robert McCrum
The third age of Grub Street – and a new era for books
Robert McCrum: Once the talk was all typewriter ribbons and galley proofs – now it's Facebooking your editor and keeping up a Twitter profile. The fundamentals of writing, however, are the same
