Date: March 7, 2014
A traffic jam "is more than the sum of all its cars. Something similar goes for the self."
preview | full record— Mooney, Chris
Date: February 28, 2014
"A memory palace assembled ad hoc from brownstone apartments, underground caves and submarine compartments, or a diligently designed, continuously flowing and elegant old Alpine resort?"
preview | full record— Itzkoff, Dave (b. 1976)
Date: January 21, 2015
"Yet there's no reason to assume that our brains will be adequate vessels for the voyage towards that answer."
preview | full record— Burkeman, Oliver (b. 1975)
Date: July 27, 2016
"But, gradually, I found myself caught up in the flow of the thing, gliding in my mind around every bend in the river, riding a raft with someone who knows where all the snags and sunken rocks of public life are."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: October 137, 2017
"But, because political campaigns occasionally can be wonderful bathyspheres to your soul’s dark abyss, we are learning that Moore’s is plenty deep and plenty dark."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: January 1, 2024
"The breadth of Hitchens’s references makes you feel that, intellectually, you are having your tires rotated."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)