Date: 1997
"She occupies now an entirely new angular relation to Mercy, to those refusals, among the Living, to act on behalf of Death or its ev'ryday Coercions,--Wages too low to live upon, Laws written by Owners, Infantry, Bailiffs, Prison, Death's thousand Metaphors in the World,--as if, the instant of h...
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: Summer, 2004
"Even on the subway and in the street, porn-i-color daydreams issue through our mental viewfinders."
preview | full record— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)
Date: 2007
"If Belinda's mind is like a whirligig of fashion or a camera obscura, where moving images are cast upon a blank surface umediated by a reflective or critical presence, then Pope supplies the ekphrasis suitable for such machinery."
preview | full record— Lamb, Jonathan (b. 1945)
Date: 2009, trans. 2012
"Everything I saw, faces, bodies ambling through the cabin, stowing their baggage here, sitting down, stowing their baggage there, sitting down, was followed by a reflective shadow that could not desist from telling me that I was seeing this now while aware that I was seeing this, and so on ad ab...
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: September 27, 2012
"The conservative mind, a repository of fresh ideas just two decades ago, is now little more than a click-click slide projector holding a tray of apocalyptic images of modern life that keeps spinning around, raising the viewer’s fever with every rotation."
preview | full record— Lilla, Mark (b. 1956)
Date: May 12, 2014
"For a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, they imaged the brains of meditators while they went through four basic mental movements: focusing on a chosen target, noticing that their minds had wandered, bringing their minds back to the target, and sustaining their focus there."
preview | full record— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)
Date: August, 22, 2015
"Partial images slide through my mind, a scattering of words spoken. Neurobiologists say that memory isn’t the replay of a video camera, but instead a pastiche of neuronal fragments gathered from here and there, wandering smells, oddly cut visual scraps, translucent experiences laid on top of one...
preview | full record— Lightman, Alan (b. 1948)
Date: March 18, 2017
"The Hirshhorn has a sold-out exhibit of Yayoi Kusama's stunning infinity mirror rooms. But they are nothing compared to the infinity mirror room of Trump's mind, now on display a mile and a half away at the White House."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: June 7, 2017
"It was not until I was studying to become a reading specialist that I truly came to appreciate student errors for what they are - mirrors into the mind of the child."
preview | full record— Walsh, Russell
Date: September 7, 2017
"Like one of Yayoi Kusama's 'Infinity Rooms,' my consciousness, and that of the women I knew, gained new dimensions."
preview | full record— Adams, Carol J. (b. 1951)