Books & Culture

November/December 2011 Issue

Volume 17, Number 6

January/February 2012 Issue
September/October 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

Saving the Birds

A gentle activism.

Evangelical ‘Ressourcement’

Matthew Milliner

Hans Boersma’s proposal.

Long Live the King

Mark Noll

The 400th anniversary of the KJV.

Grunt’s-Eye-View

Michael W. Brough

Bing West’s report from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan Demystified

Paul D. Miller

No, not “the graveyard of empires.”

An Ambitious Sociology

D. Michael Lindsay

Returning personhood to social science.

We Are Family

Rob Moll

The brain is host to competing interests.

The Ghost Writer

Alan Jacobs

Walking with Iain Sinclair.

An Eerdmans Century

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

Celebrating 100 years of publishing.

A 17th-Century Turkish Traveler

Laurance Wieder

The omnivorous curiosity of Evliya Celebi.

Modernists Abroad

Daniel Taylor

Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West.

Cold Comfort

Naomi Schaefer Riley

“The conflict of modern motherhood.”

“How Dreary to Be Somebody”

Kristen Scharold

The life of Alice James.

A Lucky Calvinist

Timothy Larsen

Dick Van Dyke, in his own words.

Wombs and Bombs

Makoto Fujimura

The Art of Toshiko Takaezu

Italian Harlem’s Madonna

Richard J. Mouw

A new edition of Robert Orsi’s classic study.

The Novel as Case Study

Jane Zwart

Bharati Mukherjee’s new book.

New York’s Black Episcopalians

Lauren F. Winner

A family history writ large.

Unto Thyself Any Graven Images

Mischa Willett

William Blake’s illustrations on biblical themes.

A Laureate in Letters

Aaron Belz

Philip Levine in correspondence, 1994-2011.

Still Life with Dumpster

Hannah Faith Notess

How to love a fallen world.

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