paralysis

Truly inspirational: the hospital diary of Hanif Kureishi

2 November 2024 9:00 am

‘My world has been smashed...and there is nothing I can do about’, writes Kureishi of the freak accident in 2022 that has left him paralysed. ‘But I will not go under. I will make something of it’

The thrill of cutting into a human brain

22 March 2014 9:00 am

In the first sentence of the first chapter of this book, Henry Marsh, a consultant brain surgeon, says, ‘I often…