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  • Published: 27 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781640098589
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Dispatches from Rural America

Fifteen Essays



A bold and brilliant new collection of essays by one of our most important writers of life in America today

This new collection gathers together for the first time sixteen essays by one of our most revered chroniclers of life in America, a landmark commentary on family, faith, community, and the threats of modernization.

Ranging from the devastating effects of war on children to the endless problems of industrialism and the ubiquitous need for connection and community, Dispatches From Rural America captures a country isolated from its land and beginnings, too focused on mass production and output, and perilously estranged from the spiritual centers that make up the foundation of our lives. 

On the cusp of the fiftieth anniversary of Berry’s seminal book The Unsettling of America, Dispatches From Rural America is urgent and vital reading in this time of political chaos from one of our most important writers.

  • Published: 27 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781640098589
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

Wendell Berry

'A farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,' Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, and also the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and the National Humanities Medal. For more than forty years, he has lived and farmed in his native Henry Country, Kentucky, with his wife, Tanya, and their children and grandchildren.

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