Date: February 25, 2010
"This suggests that depressive disorder is an extreme form of an ordinary thought process, part of the dismal machinery that draws us toward our problems, like a magnet to metal."
preview | full record— Lehrer, Jonah
Date: 2010
"Yet as I lift up this / dull desert stone, the weight of it is full / of slower, longer thoughts than mind can have."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)
Date: March 11, 2011
"Given the limits of steel and concrete to resist the forces of nature, much depends on people’s own preparedness to face up to disaster -- but that mental infrastructure is in even poorer shape than the nation’s roads and bridges."
preview | full record— Schwartz, John
Date: 2011
"Marx, his mind as hard and brilliant as a diamond, knew he would emerge the victor in any battle of wits."
preview | full record— Gabriel, Mary
Date: October 28, 2012
"Each grasped, in the unflinching gaze of the other, a silent acknowledgment of the nobility of man, especially as manifested in work, the work that purified the soul the way steel is purified in the smelter. That sort of thing."
preview | full record— Saunders, George (b. 1958)
Date: June 19, 2013
"Where they (it was held) re-made the world visually and emotionally in the smithies of their tortured souls (to paraphrase James Joyce), Warhol blithely swiped subject matter from mass media."
preview | full record— Sartwell, Crispin (b. 1958)
Date: July 26, 2016
"But it is true that she told none of these types of personal anecdotes that help people watching at home form impressions from mental clay."
preview | full record— Haberman, Maggie (b. 1973)
Date: 2016
"The plant's radical desire for what has decayed in the soil stands as a figure for memory, the reaching into dark recesses for what used to be alive."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy
Date: December 31, 2016
"The human brain didn't evolve like a piece of sedimentary rock, with layers of increasing cognitive sophistication slowly accruing over time."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)