Books & Culture

September/October 2005 Issue

Volume 11, Number 5

November/December 2005 Issue
July/August 2005 Issue

Starting the second decade of Books & Culture.

Articles in this Issue

The Lost Sheep

Betty Smartt Carter

A bittersweet exodus from fundamentalism.

In the Midst of Things

Virginia Stem Owens

I did not want to make life-or-death decisions for my mother.

Laughing in Eden

C. Stephen Evans

The life and art of P. G. Wodehouse.

Another Day, Another Dolor

Brooke Allen

Ogden Nash and the lost tradition of light verse.

Spinning a Tale

Lauren F. Winner

The unobtrusive perfection of Charlotte’s Web.

Original Misunderstanding

Susan Wise Bauer

Bret Lott’s The Difference Between Women and Men.

Living with a Big Poem

Daniel Taylor

Reflections on The Waste Land.

The Bible in American Public Life, 1860-2005

Mark Noll

Dilemmas at the center, insights from the margins.

Let’s Do the Mash

The Who Boys, the Beastles, and the Bible.

Rime of the Ancient Martian

Crystal Downing

War of the Worlds—the remix.

Does Prayer Change God?

Probing a fathomless mystery.

The Serpent Speaks

Robert Siegel

Listening for Another Reality

Philip Glassborow

Adapting George MacDonald for radio.

Butterfly Effect

John Wilson

Orphan in the Storm

Roger Lundin

Melville and the crisis of moral authority.

The Exasperated Knight of the Sorrowful Face

Laurance Wieder

A new translation of Don Quixote.

Leave the Path

Cindy Crosby

Beth Kephart’s garden walks.

Reverse Hagiography

Jason Byassee

A new biography of Saint Augustine.

Unpalatable to Modern Sensibilities

Allen C. Guelzo

Which Jonathan Edwards?

Territorial Ambitions

Bruce Kuklick

A geographical history of America.

Ungawa!

The curiously compelling saga of Tarzan.

Donnie and the Bunnyman

Thomas Hibbs

Why Donnie Darko is a favorite film on college campuses.

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