In an age of often cynical, morally ambiguous fiction, Wendell Berry is an anomaly. Berry, a lanky, erudite farmer who lives among the hills and river bottoms of his beloved native Kentucky, writes ...

Wendell Berry's new novel, "Jayber Crow," is at once the story of one man's spiritual progress and of a dreadful century viewed from the perspective of a small American agricultural community. Readers ...

The main story in a recent issue of the newspaper that serves my small town was "Nevins Retires After Decades of Parts Service." Nevins sold auto parts for 40 years. At the end of this career, he ...

Toward the end of Wendell Berry’s novel Jayber Crow, the title character reflects on his life as a barber in a small Kentucky town: “I am a man who has hoped, in time, that his life, when poured out ...

Wendell Berry’s “Jayber Crow” reveals what pastors risk losing when they trade presence for productivity. I grew up under the tutelage of two different men: a farmer and a pastor. My father pastors a ...

MORRISVILLE -- The Morrisville Public Library will present a book talk on Friday, April 20 at 12:15 p.m. at the library, Route 20. The book to be discussed is Wendell Berry's "Jayber Crow." Bring a ...

Activist and writer Bill McKibben is the award-winning author of The End of Nature and The Age of Missing Information. His new book, Eaarth, argues that our planet already has been irrevocably remade ...

Berry explores the heritage of Andy Catlett, protagonist of his Port William stories and novels (including Jayber Crow), in this wistful tale of the steady decline of tobacco farming in America. In ...