Demon Copperhead
Kinfolks

The Unsettling of America

Since its original publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. And it is perhaps more relevant than ever, as today’s agribusiness has wrested the cultural and spiritual disclipine of farming even farther from its cultural context and the family’s that practice it. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land—from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.

Although “this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,” Wendell Berry writes, there are people working “to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth.” Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.

More Adult, Non-Juvenile Books

  • 1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue, is the mecca for rare book buyers from around the world, and the haunt of locals looking for a bargain. It is also the target of the most vicious censor in American history—Anthony Comstock. And home to three sisters who vow to stop him.

  • In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, Jack and Mabel build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

  • Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures.