Seeking Clarity: Wendell Berry’s New Book

Louisville, KY. Wendell Berry is 88, and age has not blurred the beauty of his prose or diminished his ability to take enormous pains on a topic on which he wants to speak clearly. The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice is a highly personal, public discussion about racial and other prejudice, gratitude, and justice. It is an autobiography of a lifetime’s wrestling with an ethical responsibility, and it continues the analysis of self and community that he first made in 1970 with The Hidden Wound.