Date: January 11, 2014
"It's [concerning sleep loss] like the difference between a snowstorm's disrupting a single day of trash pickup and a prolonged strike. No longer quite as easy to fix, and even when the strike is over, there's likely to be some stray debris floating around for quite some time yet."
preview | full record— Konnikova, Maria (b. 1984)
Date: March 19, 2015
"When students are tackling a task like that, you can feel the whirr and hum of thought: it feels woven of reciprocity, willing, ambition, the impulse to translate fugitive thoughts into communication with others."
preview | full record— Warner, Marina (b. 1946)
Date: September 22, 2015
"This is not to say that "Tender Torrent" wasn't "fun" (it seems to be out of print today, the most enduring form of censorship); but for me, its greatest entertainment value lay in returning it to its owner, aware of the lewd visions that seethed beneath her sunny exterior. And really, that perc...
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: June 5, 2016
"Professor Sunstein's talk turned out to be a success, and his wife was on board when he decided to give book-length treatment to the ideas rattling around in his brain."
preview | full record— Rosman, Katherine
Date: July 8, 2016
"I read it in snatches, my brain jamming."
preview | full record— Couzin-Frankel, Jennifer
Date: September 18, 2016
"In the red glare of the digital clock, my brain rattled its cage."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: September 18, 2016
"In the dark hours, when we're wandering in the wilderness of thought, sometimes we just need to feel that someone, even a digital someone with a prerecorded voice, is watching over us."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: November 15, 2016
"He [Trump] has set the worst human impulses marching. But there are no clean slates in the unconscious."
preview | full record— Rose, Jacqueline (b. 1949)
Date: March 18, 2017
"So many secrets, so many plots, so many shards of gossip swirl in his head, there seems to be no room for reality."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)