Date: April 26, 2016
"It is by this dimension of imaginative relativity that Hogwarts, Middle Earth, Earthsea, Dickens's London, Hemingway's Paris, Didion's anxious California and the mind of Helen Oyeyemi, reclining like a sphinx between her pages in quiet and glittering sleep, all fit inside my tiny apartment, and ...
preview | full record— Brennan, Summer
Date: 2016
"You were one of them, / weren't you, with death / itching in the brain like a cloud of midges?"
preview | full record— Guest, Paul
Date: September 18, 2016
"Deep in the night, those warnings scuttle around my mind like rats."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: September 18, 2016
"In the red glare of the digital clock, my brain rattled its cage."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
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)
Date: May 4, 2018
"But if I can identify the lizard of envy crawling around in my psyche, I can usually tamp down the ire."
preview | full record— Marino, Gordon
Date: June 4 and 11, 2018
"'His brain works at the speed of a hummingbird,' Kasky said."
preview | full record— Kasky, Cameron (b. 2000)