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Reviews of Wendell Berry's Works

A Part (Lindsay Morgan, Ethershop, Fall 2010)

A Place in Time (Kirkus Reviews)

A Timbered Choir (Loren Webster)

A World Lost (New York Times)

A World Lost (Publisher's Weekly)

Andy Catlett: Early Travels (David Federman)

Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Ecletica.org)

Andy Catlett: Early Travels (New York Times)

Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Robert Cheeks)

I primi viaggi di Andy Catlett (PULP Libri)

The Art of Loading Brush (Walter Brueggemann, The Christian Century)

The Art of Loading Brush (Front Porch Republic)

The Art of Loading Brush (Kirkus Review)

The Art of Loading Brush (National Catholic Reporter)

Bringing It to the Table (Lisa M. Hamilton, SF Chronicle)

Bringing It to the Table (Dwight Garner, NY Times)

Citizenship Papers (Kirkus Reviews)

Collected Poems: 1957-1982 (New York Times)

Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder (Kirkus) 

Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder (Englewood Review of Books)

Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder (L.A. Review of Books)

Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder (Commonweal)

Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder (National Catholic Reporter)

Fidelity (The New Criterion)

Fidelity (New York Times)

The Gift of Good Land (New York Times)

Given (Ron Silliman)

Hannah Coulter (writersread.blogspot.com)

Hannah Coulter (sagecoveredhills.blogspot.com)

Hannah Coulter (San Francisco Chronicle)

Hannah Coulter (Crisis Magazine)

Hannah Coulter (Genealogies of Modernity)

Hannah Coulter (Michael Peterman)

How It Went (Ryan Hanning)

How It Went (Lima Ohio Tribune)

How It Went (BookPage)

How It Went (Kirkus)

How It Went (Front Porch Republic)

How It Went (Star Tribune)

How It Went (Booklist)

How It Went (Publishers Weekly)

How It Went (Mockingbird)

How It Went (Current)

How It Went (The Rabbit Room)

How It Went (The American Spectator)

Imagination in Place (Christian Science Monitor)

Imagination in Place (Englewood Review of Books)

Imagination in Place (The Oregonian)

Imagination in Place (San Francisco Chronicle)

Jayber Crow (Bookreporter.com)

Jayber Crow (John Pattinson)

Jayber Crow (Publisher's Weekly)

Jayber Crow (Rambles Magazine)

The Landscape of Harmony (UK publication, PN Review Online, partial text)

Leavings (Englewood Review of Books)

Leavings (Pacific Rim Review of Books)

Life Is a Miracle (daplaney)

Life Is a Miracle (Kirkus)

Life Is a Miracle (Spirituality and Practice)

Life Is a Miracle (Wilson Quarterly)

Life Is a Miracle (Publishers Weekly)

Life Is a Miracle (rebeccmeister)

Nathan Coulter (Kirkus Review)

Nathan Coulter (Lines from the Page)

New Collected Poems (The Christian Science Monitor)

New Collected Poems (Mary Harwell Sayler)

Our Only World (Circe Institute)

Our Only World (Ethics and Culture)

Our Only World (Front Porch Republic)

Our Only World (The Examined Life)

Remembering (Itinerant Idealist)

Remembering (L.A. Times)

Remembering (The Rabbit Room)

Remembering (New York Times)

Remembering (Kirkus)

Roots to the Earth (Left, Write & Centaur)

Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community (New York Times)

Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community (The University Bookman)

Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community - reprint (The University Bookman)

Stand By Me (The Guardian)

Stand By Me (LA Review of Books)

Stand By Me (The Spectator)

Standing by Words (The Christian Science Monitor)

Terrapin (Front Porch Republic)

Terrapin (Cityview)

That Distant Land Audiobook (Englewood Review of Books)

That Distant Land (Faith, Fiction, Friends)

That Distant Land (Publishers Weekly)

That Distant Land (Resurgence)

That Distant Land (Worthwhile Books)

The Farm (Englewood Review of Books)

The Hidden Wound (Bob on Books)

The Hidden Wound (Chris Kelley)

The Hidden Wound (Commonweal)

The Hidden Wound (Kirkus)

The Hidden Wound (Writing Cities)

The Memory of Old Jack (Publishers Weekly)

The Memory of Old Jack (The Generation Above Me)

The Memory of Old Jack (Sarah Beth West)

The Memory of Old Jack (Bookin' with Sunny)

The Memory of Old Jack (Bob on Books)

The Memory of Old Jack (The Rabbit Room)

The Memory of Old Jack (The Road Home)

The Need to Be Whole (The Christian Century)

The Need to Be Whole (Front Porch Republic - Carlson)

The Need to Be Whole (Front Porch Republic - Bilbro)

The Need to Be Whole (Front Porch Republic - Dalton)

The Need to Be Whole (Front Porch Republic - Bailey)

The Need to Be Whole (Front Porch Republic - Miller)

The Need to Be Whole (Front Porch Republic - Hochschild)

The Need to Be Whole (Front Porch Republic - Clavier)

The Need to Be Whole (The Imaginative Conservative)

The Need to Be Whole (Common Dreams)

The Need to Be Whole (Kirkus)

The Need to Be Whole (Publishers Weekly)

The Need to Be Whole (Slate)

The Need to Be Whole (Current)

The Need to Be Whole (Splice Today)

The Need to Be Whole (Renaud Beauchard)

The Need to Be Whole (The Bulwark)

The Need to Be Whole (Commonweal)

The Peace of Wild Things, Penguin UK (The Guardian)

The Peace of Wild Things (Irish Times)

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford (David Johnson, Englewood Review of Books)

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Russell Kirk, The Birmingham News, 4 June 1978)

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (New York Times)

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (archidose)

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Placing American Religions)

This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems (Catherine's Letters)

This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems (Christianity & Literature) paywall

This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems (Quiet Bubble)

This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems (Sewanee Review) paywall

This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems (World Literature Today)

This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems (Bob Trube)

Watch With Me And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch (New York Times)

Watch With Me And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch (Kirkus)

Watch With Me And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch (Publishers Weekly)

Watch With Me And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch (Bob on Books)

The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (The Marginalian)

The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Kirkus Reviews)

The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Publishers Weekly)

The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Resurgence)

The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Transition Voice)

Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories, The Civil War to World War II (Commonweal)

Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories, The Civil War to World War II (Law and Liberty)

Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories, The Civil War to World War II (The University Bookman)

Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories, The Civil War to World War II (Nick Offerman at Library of America)

What Are People For? (New York Times)

What Are People For? (Imperfect Happiness)

What Are People For? (Southern Partisan via The Imaginative Conservative)

What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 (The Baffler)

What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 (Christian Science Monitor)

What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 (The New York Review of Books)

What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 (New York Times)

What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969–2017 (Plough)

What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Civil Eats)

What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Englewood Review of Books)

What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Front Porch Republic)

What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Transition Voice)

What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Kevin L. Nenstiel, WordBasket)

Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World (Dadnabbit, Jeff Giles)

Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World (Sojourners)

Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World (Orange Marmalade)

The Wild Birds (New York Times)

The World-Ending Fire (The Guardian)

The World-Ending Fire (Los Angeles Review of Books)

The World-Ending Fire (The New Republic)

The World-Ending Fire (Resurgence)

The World-Ending Fire (Publishers Weekly)

The World-Ending Fire (Christian Science Monitor)

The World-Ending Fire (Literary Hub)

The World-Ending Fire (Mostly About Stories)


Reviews of Other Related Works

For the Hog Killing, 1979 (Front Porch Republic, 15 June 2020)

For the Hog Killing, 1979 (Front Porch Republic, 17 June 2020)

The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry edited by Mark T. Mitchell and Nathan Schlueter (Englewood Review of Books)

The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry edited by Mark T. Mitchell and Nathan Schlueter (The University Bookman)

The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry edited by Mark T. Mitchell and Nathan Schlueter (The American Conservative)

The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry edited by Mark T. Mitchell and Nathan Schlueter (Aaron Belz in The City)

The Place of Imagination:Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity by Joseph Wiebe reviewed by D. Dixon Sutherland (Reading Religion)

Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture by Ellen Davis (Englewood Review of Books)

Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture by Ellen Davis (Review of Biblical Literature)

Telling the Stories Right: Wendell Berry's Imagination of Port William by Jack R. Baker and Jeffery Bilbro (Englewood Review of Books)

Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition by Kimberly K. Smith, reviewed by Sam F. Chamelin (Englewood Review of Books)

Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide, reviewed by Bill McKibben (Christianity Today)

Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide, reviewed by Josh Sweeden

Wendell Berry and the Given Life by Ragan Sutterfield, reviewed by Jeffrey Bilbro (Christianity Today)

Wendell Berry and the Given Life by Ragan Sutterfield, reviewed by Kate Cousino (Peace and Pekoe)

Wendell Berry and the Given Life by Ragan Sutterfield, reviewed by Maura Zagrans (The Catholic Book Blogger)

Wendell Berry and Higher Education by Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro (Publishers Weekly)

Wendell Berry and Higher Education by Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro (The American Conservative)

Wendell Berry and Higher Education by Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro (Front Porch Republic)

Wendell Berry and Higher Education by Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro (First Things)

 

links checked 8 October 2022

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  • The Membership: A Wendell Berry Podcast
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