An author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, Wendell Berry has received high praise from major nature writers such as Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey. Stegner, with whom Berry studied, comments, "It is hard to say whether I like...

A distinguished essayist and accomplished poet, Wendell Berry has also established himself as an important novelist and short-story writer. Since the publication of his first novel, Nathan Coulter (1960), Berry has earned a place as an important...

Wendell Berry is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose steady literary achievement has earned him wide recognition both as an artist and as a spokesman for contemporary environmental concerns. Amid the more frequent and more widely ranging poetry and...

A Kentucky farmer, poet, novelist, essayist and conservationist, Berry has been a persistent critic of large-scale industrial agriculture—which he believes to be a contradiction in terms—and a champion of environmental stewardship and...

Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is also an elected member of the...

We are very pleased to devote this special issue of Christianity and Literature to an analysis and appreciation of the work of Wendell Berry, whose writings have provoked and enriched readers for more than forty years. In addition to the essays on Berry's...

All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork. The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by...

Richard Hofstadter spent most his adult life in the “Upper West Side Kibbutz,” an area of Morningside Heights bounded by Claremont Avenue, Riverside Drive and Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. Of the eminences who inhabited this neighborhood in the 1950’s—Daniel Bell, Peter Gay, Irving Kristol, Lionel Trilling—Hofstadter...

Richard Hofstadter spent most his adult life in the “Upper West Side Kibbutz,” an area of Morningside Heights bounded by Claremont Avenue, Riverside Drive and Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. Of the eminences who inhabited this neighborhood in the 1950’s—Daniel Bell, Peter Gay, Irving Kristol, Lionel Trilling—Hofstadter...

In the following essay, Whited views Berry's work as a repudiation of consumer culture in favor of an appreciation and understanding of a value system based on spiritual, communal, and familial concerns.

In the following essay, Knot examines the role of wilderness in Berry's work.

In the following essay, Collins asserts that Berry's poetry and prose stresses the importance of poetry in a technological world.