Date: February 1, 2016
"Which is to say that a novel is perishable only by virtue of being stored in such a leaky cask: our heads."
preview | full record— Bissell, Tom (b. 1974)
Date: September 12, 2016
"Her images tend to thwart the mind--which keeps rusty handles and voices in separate boxes--in a direct appeal to the senses."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
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: February 18, 2017
"Then think of the president's skull, which is stuffed with other humours: insecurity, insincerity, victimhood, paranoia, mockery, self-delusion, suspicion, calculation, illogic, vindictiveness, risk, bullying, alimentiveness, approbativeness, vitativeness. Gall, divided into three parts."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: June 30, 2017
"Other details, like the color of your childhood bedroom, have been tucked into deep storage and are much harder -- if not impossible -- to retrieve."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: June 30, 2017
"Or consider living with an unending library of easily recalled memories. It would be overwhelming: Dates, names, phone numbers -- they would all be constantly top of mind."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: October 23, 2017
"Evans said that, after the incident, 'I just put it in a part of my brain and closed the door.'"
preview | full record— Farrow, Ronan (b. 1987)
Date: November 20, 2017
"[Alex] Jones's problem is not that his mind is closed. If anything, his mind is far too open."
preview | full record— Marantz, Andrew
Date: November 20, 2017
"The mainstream-media 'puppet masters,' he said, want to 'smuggle their dangerous ideas across the open borders of your mind. I want to shut down those borders. I want to close your mind.'"
preview | full record— Marantz, Andrew
Date: December 10, 2017
"To fill oneself with the consciousness of others, and then to forget deeply enough, and long enough, that the collective world can be welded to what is unique and original to oneself--this is as precise and moving a definition of creativity as I have come across."
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)