Books & Culture

September/October 2011 Issue

Volume 17, Number 5

November/December 2011 Issue
July/August 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

Trompe L’Oeil

Melissa Broder

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

Delusion, hubris, and faith.

2 Minutes with … Rachel Simon

Interview by Amy Julia Becker

“A Capital Miracle”

C. Christopher Smith

Faith healing and nativism in 19th-century America.

Smithereens!

Robert H. Gundry

Bible-reading and “pervasive interpretive pluralism.”

Where Is Everyone?

Jennifer Wiseman

Prospecting for extraterrestrial life.

Against Lysenkoism

Bill McKibben

The patient, cumulative work of consensus science.

The Body Beautiful

Christopher Benson

An inheritance from the Greeks.

Take It Off

Betty Smartt Carter

Gypsy Rose Lee seen plain.

The Next Big Test

Jerry Pattengale

Is a new assessment agenda adrift?

Called to Response

Julie Canlis

Believers in union with Christ.

Living with the Triune God

The Christian life is relentlessly personal.

Not the Hero of His Own Story

Martin B. Copenhaver

Eugene Peterson on the pastoral life.

Century for Sale

Robert Joustra

Buyer beware.

A Glass of Water

Otto Selles

God and the Detectives

Joseph Bottum

Religious mysteries: a perplexing case.

Nollywood Tales

Naomi Haynes

Pentecostal themes in Nigerian films.

Something to See

Roy Anker

Cannes 2011

Meaning and Music

Micah Mattix

Lyrics worth listening to.

A Lesson from the Master

Mark Walhout

Jonathan Raban’s American notebook.

Letting Go

Naomi Schaefer Riley

A novel in which self-realization rules.

What Marvell Believed

Jeffrey Galbraith

Portrait of a chameleon.

Epitaph in a Box

Brett Foster

Anne Carson’s elegy for her brother.

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