Arts & Letters Daily search results for “wendell berry” (7)


2019-05-24 | The dissents of Wendell Berry. His dislikes include weather forecasts, unsmelly bathrooms, ballroom dancing, and the moon landing more »


2020-01-21 | Wendell Berry is probably the best-known and most influential antimodernist alive. His prose is splendid. His political strategy is disastrous more »


2021-06-22 | The hopeful pessimist. For half a century, Wendell Berry has been a portrait of how to live without despair when losing is likely   more »


2022-02-23 | At 87, Wendell Berry, author of 52 books, refuses to hang it up. His latest has something to offend just about everyone more »


2019-09-10 | "For most of his life, Wendell Berry has written as a kind of elegist, detailing the tragic path that we have taken and recalling other paths now mostly fading" more »


2014-09-30 | Oliver Wendell Holmes's mollusk, Emily Dickinson's snake, Melville's Maldive shark: What about animals makes them such attractive poetic subjects? Their inscrutability, for one more »


2012-08-19 | Oliver Wendell Holmes described the camera as a "mirror with a memory." At that time, photography was not yet routine; a single picture could capture a person for life more »