Date: 2008
"In a sense, the mind works like a flashlight: When you point a flashlight at an object in a dark room, that object emerges from the darkness, as if coming into existence."
preview | full record— Somov, Pavel G.
Date: October 31, 2011
"And then there were the experiments, each one a snapshot into the dark box of the brain."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
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: March, 2014
"Culture: a kind of knife: / cuts one way opens / your brain to a certain / breed of light shaves / consciousness to its // purpose, its cross."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Date: April 11, 2015
"About once a month I run across a person who radiates an inner light."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: April 11, 2015
"Gradually, a humiliating gap opens between your actual self and your desired self, between you and those incandescent souls you sometimes meet."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
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: 2015
"It's never really dark
anyway, not even inside the skull"
preview | full record— Young, Dean (b. 1955)
Date: September 12, 2016
"'Memorial' wasn't a translation of Homer: the Iliad was its neutral backdrop, lit up by Oswald's flares of mind."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: October 137, 2017
"It is a premeditated catastrophe visited on people whom Paul Ryan believes in the darkness of his soul and in the shadows of his mind do not deserve the help of the government of which they are a part."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)