A review by aemy
Another Turn of the Crank: Essays by Wendell Berry

It's been a while since I've read any of Wendell Berry's essays, and while I once again deeply enjoyed his discussions of the land, agriculture and community and his self-described "luddite" attitude that sometimes verges on grandfatherly grumpiness I became increasingly aware of the limitations of his perspective. For all he praises the fertility and abundance of the land in North America, and the community and land ethic if its indigenous peoples, and condemns the consequences of industrialism he never makes the connection between settler colonialism and many of those very same consequences. While he can praise the land management techniques of the Menominee, that praise only goes so far as to be taken as direction as how white land owners and communities should behave and relate. He doesn't even seem aware of what perspective he is writing from in this case, let alone how to address it There is also, as other reviewers noted, a very strange digression into pro-life politics. Like. Where did that come from Wendell? Stay in your lane??