"I can’t help wishing that someone of Marilynne Robinson’s stature and gifts, would tell readers of The New York Review of Books that church communities need not be scorned or feared, and then tell those church communities the same about the readers of The New York Review of Books. That would require a patience, a kindness, a courage that it seems scarcely possible to ask for in our current climate."

A train in Iowa derailed and crashed into a trackside bar named Derailed.

"Works of art that can accompany you through the decades are mirrors in which you can see yourself, wells in which you can keep dipping. They remind you that what you bring to the work of art is as important as what it brings to you. They can become registers of how you’ve changed." Rebecca Solnit, in the September issue

Introducing September!

This could have been written yesterday, but it's from 1964.

“I saw things there that . . . I saw things that were not particularly right. To me, for some sins, God will deal with you harshly, because they are just not right.”

Si Lewen died on July 25, 2016 at the age of 97. Read Art Spiegelman's celebration of Lewen and his work in the August issue

"Who belongs to the generation prepared to revitalize the modest city neighborhoods that desegregation left behind?" ‪#‎FreddieGray‬

"The great political populist of our time, the man who promises to save us from all the corrupt politicians who have sold our country to corporate interests, is just another billionaire businessman, a man whose chief qualification seems to be that he lacks the technocrat’s competence and expertise." Walter Kirn, from the August issue ‪#‎Trump‬

"The paranoid . . . is afflicted not only by the real world . . .but by his fantasies as well." The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Richard Hofstadter, 1964

Donald Trump has a problem with his party, but it’s not personal — it’s business.

“After a couple of days of pomp and circumstance in the White House, Trump’s brain would be nothing more than a bog of testosterone.” Martin Amis

A visit to Harriet Tubman's birthplace. ‪#‎postcard‬ ‪#‎undergroundrailroad‬

"Trump is insecurity incarnate—his cornily neon-lit vulgarity reminding you of the pinups on Lolita’s bedroom wall.” Martin Amis

Police in the Northern Territory of Australia warned users of the mobile game Pokémon Go to stay out of a police station that the game encouraged users to visit. "You don't actually have to step inside in order to gain the pokéballs," read a police statement.

For ‪#‎context‬ on England's decision to leave the EU. From “How Germany Reconquered Europe,” published in the February 2014 issue. ‪#‎brexit‬

Tom Bissell discusses her July cover story on Think with Krys Boyd