Date: September 22, 2015
"You can shun obscene books if you like, but you can't scrub erotic fantasies from the mind's hard drive."
preview | full record— Schillinger, Liesl
Date: December 9, 2015
"But it comes with a troubling idea of what literature is today: a salve for the distracted mind; a groove along which thoughts disordered by the bad habits of centripetal reading might fall back into line."
preview | full record— Lupton, Christina
Date: July 8, 2016
"I read it in snatches, my brain jamming."
preview | full record— Couzin-Frankel, Jennifer
Date: September 12, 2016
"'I thought I had completely fried my motherboard,' he continued. 'I remember saying, ''I will never do this again.''"
preview | full record— Levy, Ariel (b. 1974)
Date: September 12, 2016
"'Indigenous prophesies point to an imminent polar reversal that will wipe our hard drives clean,' Daniel Pinchbeck wrote in his exploration of ayahuasca, technology, and Mayan millennialism, '2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl.'"
preview | full record— Levy, Ariel (b. 1974)
Date: December 31, 2016
"An ancient inner layer [of the brain], inherited from reptiles, was presumed to contain circuits for basic survival. The middle layer, the 'limbic system,' supposedly contained emotion circuitry inherited from mammals."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: February 18, 2017
"So we're stuck in Trump's head with him. ... It's a very cluttered place to be, a fine-tuned machine spewing a torrent of chaos, cruelty, confusion, farce and transfixing craziness."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: May 12, 2018
"It was like the same tapes were kind of, like, back in the brain."
preview | full record— Yael [full name not given]
Date: July 9 & 16, 2018
"It's like they're only searching their mind database for women."
preview | full record— Moshfegh, Ottessa (b. May 20, 1981)
Date: February 9, 2019
"It should be noted that this problem of split-screen consciousness is likely to get worse in the era of divided government, not better."
preview | full record— Senior, Jennifer