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This Week’s Hot Reads: November 6, 2012

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From Oliver Sacks’s hallucinations to Alice Munro’s stories. By Mythili Rao.

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Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks

The neurologist peels back the poetry and terror of hallucinations.

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“Bliss can coincide with terror,” Oliver Sacks observes in one of his patient’s sleep-paralysis induced hallucinations.

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