In the last 5 years new techniques and instruments at a variety of wavelengths have allowed the detection of roughly 2000 galaxies at redshifts z > 1. These large high redshift samples are allowing us to confront theoretical models for the formation of galaxies and large scale structure in detail for the first time. I will discuss recent results from high redshift surveys. The emphasis will be on UV-selected galaxies, but I will also discuss the connection between these galaxies and galaxies detected at longer (sub-mm/mm/radio) wavelengths and the connection between star-forming galaxies and the neutral hydrogen absorbers observed in the spectra of high redshift QSOs.