Books & Culture

July/August 2011 Issue

Volume 17, Number 4

September/October 2011 Issue
May/June 2011 Issue

Books & Culture was a bimonthly review that engaged the contemporary world from a Christian perspective. Every issue of Books & Culture contained in-depth reviews of books that merit critical attention, as well as shorter notices of significant new titles. It was published six times a year by Christianity Today from 1995 to 2016.

Articles in this Issue

Parts of a World

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

The anti-career of A. G. Mojtabai.

Two Minutes with … David Brooks

Interview by David J. Michael

“The new sciences of human nature.”

Recommended Reading

Todd C. Ream

Writing by American Indians.

Princesses Galore

Naomi Schaefer Riley

The new girlie-girl culture.

So You’re a Baptist—

Mark Noll

What might that mean?

Saint, Crank, Martyr

Tim Stafford

Gandhi’s struggle with India.

Pensive Rabbits

N. D. Wilson

Rob Bell is not easy to pin down.

Hellish Convictions

Kelly James Clark

Heaven and hell in the American imagination.

Love in the Face of Sin

Lauren F. Winner

Julian of Norwich, re-imagined.

The Mission to Hawaii

Kristen Scharold

Imperialism? Evangelism? Both.

Faithfully Present

Brett McCracken

A film about monks and martyrdom.

A Critique of ALL Religions

David Lyle Jeffrey

Chinese intellectuals and the church.

Sweetly from the Tree

Susanna Childress

“Not Another Bloody Chicken!”

Alister Chapman

Britain between 1945 and 1957.

Cool Capitalism

Robert Whaples

In praise of entrepreneurship.

Revolutionary Faith

Matt Reynolds

A religious history of the American Revolution.

Godly Politics

Mark Valeri

Puritans and public life.

Empire as a Way of Life

Eugene McCarraher

The path to permanent war.

“Emerging Monstrousness”

John G. Turner

America, Europe, and the religious divide.

Loving the Letter of the Text

Fidelity and “deep exegesis.”

A Pastoral Commentary

Scot McKnight

Philip Graham Ryken on the Gospel of Luke.

“It’s All a Mystery”

Interview by Harold K. Bush, Jr.

A conversation with Don DeLillo

Artist of the Portrait

Richard Gibson

Oscar Wilde, annotated and uncensored.

The Aroma of the New

Makoto Fujimura

What if there is a Reality behind the reality we know?

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