Date: December 20, 2014
"Further, just as the human stomach -- unlike the termite's -- can't digest wood, so there are some things our brains just aren't capable of knowing."
preview | full record— Kaplan, Eric
Date: April 30, 2014
"It is because you have maggots for a soul, you fucking barbarian."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: June 18, 2015
"This was not an unthinkable act. A man may have had a rat's nest for a mind, but it was well thought out. It was a cool, considered crime, as well planned as any bank robbery or any computer fraud."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: December 30, 2015
"The brain was gently pulsating within. It resembled a small animal in a grotto. Or the meat of an open mussel."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: December 30, 2015
"That is the wolf. The awkward, twisted or stupid part of the soul, the grudges and the envy, the hopelessness and the darkness, the childish joy and the unmanageable desire."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: December 30, 2015
"The wolf is the part of human nature that the systems have no room for, the aspect of reality that our ideas, the firmament that the brain vaults above our lives, cannot fathom. The wolf is the truth."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: January 17, 2017
"The new mind, which the body floods with adrenaline, begins -- like a rabbit in a forest of foxes -- to decode all the signals, even if it's not capable of fitting them into any narrative."
preview | full record— Hemon, Aleksandr (b. 1964)
Date: May 15, 2017
"We've got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: June 30, 2017
"Research explains why forgetting delivers this memory boost. Memories don't fly out of our brains like sparrows from a barn."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: April 28, 2018
"Some magazine stories are fishhooks; they work their way into your mind and don't come out."
preview | full record— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)