Date: February 27, 2017
"And I don't want to pray, but I can picture / the plants deepening right now into the soil, / wanting to live, so I lie down among them, / in my ripped pink tank top, filthy and covered / in sweat, among red burying beetles and dirt / that's been turned and turned like a problem / in the mind."
preview | full record— Limón, Ada (b. March 28, 1976)
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: March 18, 2017
"So many secrets, so many plots, so many shards of gossip swirl in his head, there seems to be no room for reality."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
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 14, 2017
"Sadly I fear that Shakespeare's 'Crassus,' now showing in the theater of my imagination, might be just as controversial as the new "Julius Caesar" were it staged as an evocation of the Trump era, since it would end with its slain-by-Parthians Crassus having molten gold, a symbol of his avarice, ...
preview | full record— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)
Date: July 26, 2017
"But he is nonetheless clearly impaired, gravely deficient somewhere at the intersection of reason and judgment and conscience and self-control."
preview | full record— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)
Date: July 28, 2017
"Scaramucci is the personification of Trump's deep brain."
preview | full record— Parker, Kathleen
Date: July 31, 2017
"Character is like concrete: You can make an impression when it's freshly poured, in its youth, one could say, but when it sets, it's impervious to alteration."
preview | full record— Blow, Charles (b. 1970)
Date: August 24, 2017
"Whatever we choose as option A, there is always a chorus, inside our own minds and outside of it, contending it would have been better if we had just gone with option B."
preview | full record— Filipovic, Jill (b. 1983)
Date: September/October, 2017
"Is 'American ideas' one of those phrases, like 'how women are' or 'the will of the West to survive' that are to thinking as huffing gasoline is to breathing?"
preview | full record— Purdy, Jedediah (b. 1974)