Books & Culture

November/December 2016 Issue

Volume 22, Number 6

September/October 1995 Issue
September/October 2016 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

500 Years and Now What?

Mary Noll Venables

Protestantism and its legacies.

Note to Our Readers

Harold B. Smith

Bouncing Around

Stranger in a Strange Land: Jon Pott

Conversation Pieces

Theodore Prescott

Art among friends.

Coming of Age, Sort Of

Cara Meredith

A young teacher’s hard lessons.

The Easter Rising

Alister Chapman

Revisiting the defining moment in Ireland’s struggle for independence.

It CAN Happen Here

Tom Shippey

A cautionary fable from Bruce Sterling.

Stories Begetting Stories

David V. Urban

On Peter Orner.

The Eastern Face of World War I

Donald A. Yerxa

Filling in a neglected part of the story.

Pilgrim’s Progress

Fred Bahnson

Geoff Dyer and “thin spaces.”

The Contarini Angle

Mark Noll

Reformations, plural.

Quasi-Divine Democracy

Bruce Kuklick

Leveraging the transient into the eternal.

Through the Gates of Hades

Chris Hoke

Crossing borders with Dennis Covington.

The Squatters Next Door

A history of American shantytowns.

Mind the Gap?

Amy E. Black and Kira Dittman

Robert Putnam on “the American Dream in crisis.”

Healing Wounds After Battle

Stephen N. Williams

The church as a unified and serving body.

Messed-Up Memories of Jesus?

Robert Gundry

The Gospels, memory, and oral tradition.

The Deep and Subtle Unity of the Bible

Interview by Garrett Brown

A conversation with Richard B. Hays.

Everyman at Large

Sarah Ruden

Bill Bryson in Britain.

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