Essays on WB

Book-Length Studies and Collections
Angyal, Andrew. Wendell Berry. New York: Twayne, 1995.

Bonzo, J. Matthew and Michael R. Stevens. Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2008.

Goodrich, Janet. The Unforeseen Self in the Works of Wendell Berry. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2001.

Merchant, Paul, ed. Wendell Berry (American Authors Series). Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence, 1991.

Mitchell, Mark and Nathan Schlueter. The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2011.

Oehlschlaeger, Fritz. The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 2011.

Peters, Jason, ed. Wendell Berry: Life and Work. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 2007.

Shuman, Joel James and L. Roger Owens, eds. Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 2009.

Smith, Kimberly K. Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace. Lawrence: U P of Kansas, 2003.

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 Abstract of "Conservation and Local Economy" from Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community. (Cornell)

Abstract of "Conserving Communities" from Another Turn of the Crank (Cornell)

Abstract of "Living with The Land" from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Cornell)

Abstract of "The Body and the Earth" from The Unsettling of America (Cornell)

"Agrarians of the World, Unite!" (Christianity Today 6.10.02)

"A Kinship of the Fields: Farming in the Poetry of R. S. Thomas and Wendell Berry" (Jeffery Triggs)

Berry involved with "Big Trees and the Lives They've Changed" at NPR

"Biblical convocation in Wendell Berry's remembering" by Phillip J. Donnelly (Christianity and Literature, Winter 2007)

"Christian Response to 'The Gift of Good Land,' Thirty Years Later" (Flourish, 2010)

"A Crucifix for Dracula: Wendell Berry Meets Edward O. Wilson" by H. Fromm

"The Crunchy-Con Menace: Rescuing America from the Idiocy of Rural Life" (Chronicles Magazine, Jerry Salyer)

"The dark night of the soil: an agrarian approach to mystical life" by Norman Wirzba (Christianity and Literature, Winter 2007)

Dissertation abstract: Baker, Bernard. "Responsibly at Home: Wendell Berry's Quest for the Simple Life." (Case Western Reserve)

"Ecology of Mind" (a 1979 paper by Jon Towne)

"Embedded Narrative in Jayber Crow: Embracing a Marginal Existence" by John Rhodes

"Escape from Violence: Synthesizing the ethics of Rene Girard, Wendell Berry, & Jacques Derrida" by Daniel Silliman

Everyday Journal 1.3: The Wendell Berry Issue (contains essays by Todd Edmonson, KC Flynn, and Dana Nichols)

"Faith & Works of Wendell Berry" (audio of Jason Peters at Cornerstone 2009)

"Farm as Form: Wendell Berry's Sabbaths" (Jeffery Triggs)

"Fictional Communities" by Nancy M. Tischler (World Magazine)

"Fidelity" - an overview from a medical perspective

"Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wendell Berry on Planet Earth" by Gaymon L. Bennett, Sr. (Fund for Christian Ecology)

"Go Ahead, Mr. Wendell" (Mark Engler) from Grist Magazine

"Good Work: Learning about Ministry from Wendell Berry" by Kyle Childress (Christian Century)

"Imagining a Different Way to Live" by Ragan Sutterfield (Christianity Today, 2006)

"The Joining of Heaven and Earth: A Look at Wendell Berry and the Church" by KC Flynn, The Everyday Journal 1.3

Ken Kesey on Wendell Berry (The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, 1971)

Lectures by Dreher, Kauffman, Fahey, Carlson and WB himself from November 2007 Wendell Berry Conference in Louisville (audio, mp3 files) (ISI) and here.

Life Is a Miracle: The Spirituality and Philosophy of Wendell Berry by Gregory Poore (mp3, an audio file)

"Light in Darkness: Wendell Berry" by Jim Powell (Threepenny Review, Fall, 2011)

Living by Words: Berry and others on PBS: KET

"Living on Earth Profile Series #8: Wendell Berry" (NPR, 6.16.95)

"Lyrical Plea to Preserve Fabric of Small Farms" (New York Times, 2.27.88)

"Mourning With Those Who Mourn: Common Grief in Wendell Berry's A Place On Earth" by Todd Edmonson, The Everyday Journal 1.3

"More Real than Real: The Weird Localism of Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Wendell Berry" by Bryan Wallis, Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology (AJE), Vol 2 (2012)

"Moving the Dark to Wholeness: The Elegies of Wendell Berry" (Jeffery Triggs) and as a pdf file

"No Better Place: The fiction of Wendell Berry" by Mark Engler, 28 February 2005, DemocracyUprising.com

"'Now You Know the Worst': Wendell Berry's Commencement Apologia" by Dana Nichols, The Everyday Journal 1.3

"Of Gardens and Cities" (Peter J. Leithart at CredendaAgenda)

"Outdoors: A Farmer's Food for Thought" on What Are People For? (Nelson Bryant at New York Times)

Patrick Deneen on Wendell Berry as Kentucky Aristotelian (Mars Hill Audio mp3)

Publisher's Information on Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition by Kimberly Smith

Responses to "The Prejudice Against Country People" in The Progressive

"Restorative Vision" (The Christian Century reflects on the poem "The Slip")

"Rethinking Politics as Statecraft: Wendell Berry among the Anabaptists" by Richard J. Klinedinst (pdf) (The Mennonite Quarterly Review, October 2009)

"Rural Philosophy for Education: Wendell Berry's Tradition" (ERIC Digest)

"Seed Will Sprout in the Scar: Wendell Berry on Higher Education" by Matt Bonzo and Michael Stevens (the otherjournal.com)

"Standing by Words: Wendell Berry's 'Interesting Prose Side'" (Jeffery Triggs) (a pdf file for Acrobat Reader)

"Stubbornness Counts" (The Progressive reflects on the poem "February 2, 1968")

"Toward an Ignorance-Based World View" by Wes Jackson

"The Tragedy of the Commonwealth and the Vision of Wendell Berry" by Nathaniel Stewart (Georgetown International Environmental Law Review)

Wendell Berry (an appreciation)

 "Wendell Berry and the poetics of marriage and embodiment" by Roger Lundin (Christianity and Literature, Winter 2007)

Wendell Berry at Living on Earth (NPR)

"Wendell Berry, genius" by Hans Snoek (Prism)

"Wendell Berry in modern times" by Geoff Wells

"Wendell Berry Joins Anti-Mountaintop Removal Sit-In" by Lisa Bennett

"Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and the Leadership of Local Communities: Lessons in Sustainability and Health" by Neal Beets (PM Magazine)

Wendell Berry: One of 35 Who Made a Difference (Smithsonian Magazine 11. 05)

Wendell Berry: People, Land and Fidelity (M. A. Grubbs)

"Wendell Berry, seeds of hope, and the survival of creation" by Harold K. Bush, Jr. (Christianity and Literature, Winter 2007) 

"Wendell Berry talks..." (Reflections on Berry's Seattle reading 11.4.04)

 "Wendell Berry's vindication of the flesh" by Jason Peters (Christianity and Literature, Winter 2007)

"Wendell Berry's Wild Spirit" by Erik Reece (Garden & Gun, August/September 2011)

"Wendell Berry's Wisdom" by Michael Pollan (The Nation 9.2.09)

"We Will Berry You: The Flaky Socialism of the Crunchy Cons" (Taki's Magazine, David Gordon)

"Why Wendell Berry Should Buy a Computer" by Jan Einar Stromsodd

"The Wisdom of Wendell Berry" (audio from Matt Rothschild at The Progressive Radio Show, 10.12.09)