Date: February 21, 2019

"It was a place where she knew what was going to happen, a place where she would always choose the right side, where the failure was in history and not in herself, where she did not read the wrong writers, was not seized with surges of enthusiasm for the wrong leaders, did not eat the wrong anima...

— Lockwood, Patricia

Date: February 21, 2019

"Still, she stood there, and locked them in her mind for an hour."

— Lockwood, Patricia

Date: February 24, 2019

"If I watched long enough, I felt lightly hypnotized, as if one of those disembodied hands had reached in and massaged my brain."

— Matchar, Emily (b. 1982)

Date: February 24, 2019

"It was 2016 when I discovered Oddly Satisfying, and I needed a little brain massage."

— Matchar, Emily (b. 1982)

Date: 2019

"What can I say / That you won't engrave / On your heart?"

— Jennifer and Jessica Clavin [Bleached]

Date: September 30, 2019

"In five minutes, the app had sandblasted my cognitive matter with twenty TikToks that had the legibility and logic of a narcoleptic dream."

— Tolentino, Jia (b. 1988)

Date: August 13, 2020

"IF ONLY WE COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT LURKED IN HIS STRADIVARIUS OF A MIND!"

— Petri, Alexandra (b. 1988)

Date: April 29, 2024

"Merleau-Ponty is a deep influence; one can feel him tumbling around in the back seat of much of Butler’s thinking."

— Parul Sehgal (b.1981)