Wendell Berry
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“As I Know by Love”: Wendell Berry’s Another Day January 06, 2025
Wendell Berry’s This Day collected all his Sabbath poems from 1979-2012, and now Another Day collects the subsequent eleven years of Sabbath poems. These are worthy continuations of one of the most remarkable and long-lasting poetic endeavors in Amer...
Big Isn't Beautiful Either June 29, 2023
Trevor Latimer’s Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case Against Localism confronts an ideological localism that treats localist solutions as a panacea, a presumption, and as an “article of faith.” He defines localism primarily as a political philosophy, def...
Seeking Clarity: Wendell Berry’s New Book October 06, 2022
Louisville, KY. Wendell Berry is 88, and age has not blurred the beauty of his prose or diminished his ability to take enormous pains on a topic on which he wants to speak clearly. The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice is a hi...
Wendell Berry's Lifelong Dissent September 23, 2019
At a time when political conflict runs deep and erects high walls, the Kentucky essayist, novelist, and poet Wendell Berry maintains an arresting mix of admirers. Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 2011. The following year, the...
Wendell Berry, The Bard of Kentucky December 26, 2018
The long shelf of fiction by Wendell Berry—overshadowed by the colossal green canopy of his poetry and agrarian essays—has been brought into the light by the Library of America. Wendell Berry: Port William Novels and Stories, the first of two volumes...
