Date: 2001
"Pebble, question, soul: no one can see all sides at once, but there is no side that cannot be seen."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
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: December 10, 2017
"As this can happen many times in a life, a memory might be described as having a kind of geological history, with different stratifications going back through time, 'representing the psychic achievement of successive epochs of life.'"
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)
Date: February 21, 2019
"Gradually it had become the place where we sounded like each other, through some erosion of wind or water on a self not nearly as firm as stone."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia