A quote for July 2024.

You Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.

—Joseph Brodsky, as told by Marie Howe.

‘Marie Howe: The Power of Words to Save Us’ from On Being with Krista Tippett, 25 April 2013.

Photography by Sean Ferigan (detail).