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Forsaking Success: Wendell Berry’s Return to Kentucky
...Berry that “you can’t go home again.” The meeting did not move Berry; his face was set like flint toward Kentucky. Years later, Berry’s advisor, Wallace Stegner, a literary giant…
What Wendell Berry Saw
...near Berry’s place and asked what it was like living beside the famous author Wendell Berry. The boy objected. Wendell Berry was not a famous author. He was his neighbor.…
The Yankee Southern Agrarian
...person; they are always social.” There is much here that will cause the head of a Berry-loving communitarian to nod. Yet, Krueger is no mere Wendell-wanna-be. For one, he does…
Thoughts on Teaching Wendell Berry
...of thing. Bringing together the cultural Left and the corporatist Right creates some pretty bad juju. D. Stonehouse Just a comment about teaching Wendell Berry. I first entered Wendell's world…
Wendell Berry Opts Out of the ‘Culture of Violence’
Our Only World: Ten Essays. By Wendell Berry. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015. In January of 2012, Wendell Berry delivered a speech at Georgetown College that explained his support for legalizing gay…
Telling the Stories Right
Front Porch Republic Books has just published a new book, Telling the Stories Right: Wendell Berry’s Imagination of Port William. This volume includes twelve essays that consider Berry’s work as…
Place Isn’t Just Geographical
...another illustration of the complex interworkings of Berry’s notion of place along dimensions that include the geographical, chronological, communal, and hierarchical. Alan Jacobs’s response is clarifying in its rather harsh…
Berry at SAMLA
Spring Arbor, MI Wendell Berry’s appearance at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) last weekend in Atlanta is just the latest indication of his increasing profile in the academy.…
The Danger of Hope: Lana Del Rey, Stephen King, and Wendell Berry in the Days of COVID-19
...a conversation Berry had at Yale University. In preparation for Berry’s 2013 Chubb Fellow lecture, Jeffrey Brenzell, then head of Timothy Dwight College, asked Berry how he sustained a sense…
Remembering Wendell Berry
...teacher than Wendell.” “Beware: Wendell Berry Will Change You.” I try to articulate why it might be that encountering Berry’s writings led people to change their lives: “Berry sought to…
For the Hog Killing, 1979 and the Work of Photography
...Berry took the For the Hog Killing, 1979 photographs—Wendell Berry distinguishes between a “tourist-photographer” and the “photographic artist.” The “tourist-photographer,” Wendell Berry writes, “goes to a place, bound by his…
Patriotic Work: Wendell Berry’s The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
Rockford, IL. Over a half century ago and in reaction to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., a young Wendell Berry penned a very personal essay on race relations…
Practicing Authentic Conversation
...Berry is drawing from. I am very much looking forward to reading Berry's latest. Martin Great article, Jeff. I was particularly struck by your comment on Berry’s admonition about the…
Thoughts on Wendell Berry (Autobiographical and Otherwise)
...seed in my mind which never left. Lopate, in his introduction to the essay, called Berry’s writing “upright,” “Puritanical,” and “Biblical”; “he rarely shows humor,” he added, “or even irony;…
Love Is Its Own Justification: Wendell Berry and the Lure of Political Efficacy
Jackson, MI. In the latest issue of The Baffler, George Scialabba reviews the Library of America’s recent collections of Wendell Berry’s essays. It’s a perceptive and sympathetic review, but Scialabba ultimately parts ways…
Wendell Berry’s Necessary Disciplines
...on the life and work of Wendell Berry. The Power of the Particular In his 1991 essay “Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse,” Berry asserted that “Abstraction is the…
Wendell Berry and the Great Economy
...Are they "agrarians" in anything like Berry's? John Médaille Michael, not a niggling point at all, but a common misconception about the physiocrats. On the agrarian scale, they were to…
Remembering Revisited
...we must dwell on disintegration. How do we become divided? San Francisco is Berry’s setting for Andy’s alienation. Put dramatically, Berry casts the Golden City in the role of hell.…
Wendell Berry and the Choice of Life
...we’re all the kind of people who like Wendell Berry. (If you come to the conference in October, I think you will see what I mean.) It would be hard…
The Irony of a Wendell Berry NFT
...collection of Berry’s economic writings. Wendell Berry as an NFT Primarily, Wendell Berry assails the very speculative economy that NFTs represent and entrench. An economy based around reckless gambling on…
Learning to Live a Second Life in Two Stories by John Berger and Wendell Berry
...books by Wendell Berry and roughly twenty by John Berger. (For those not familiar with Berger, he was an English novelist, art critic, and reputed Marxist who died in 2017.…
A Digital Relation to the Universe
...the latest from the Magnolia empire, however well-made the products are. We cannot risk a tame, sentimental Wendell Berry any more than we can risk becoming Wendell Berry fundamentalists who…
Review of “The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry”
...6: The Third Landscape: Wendell Berry and American Conservation by Jason Peters Chapter 7: Wendell Berry and Democratic Self-Governance by Patrick J. Deneen Chapter 8: First They Came for the…
What Wendell Berry’s Brush Teaches Us About Capitalism, Community, and “Inevitability”
...in Berry’s home state which began in 1921, took new life–and, in Berry’s view, best performed its careful balancing act–under the New Deal’s Federal Tobacco Program beginning in 1941, and…