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

A bittersweet exodus from fundamentalism.

In the Midst of Things

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

Laughing in Eden

The life and art of P. G. Wodehouse.

Another Day, Another Dolor

Ogden Nash and the lost tradition of light verse.

Spinning a Tale

The unobtrusive perfection of Charlotte’s Web.

Original Misunderstanding

Bret Lott’s The Difference Between Women and Men.

Living with a Big Poem

Reflections on The Waste Land.

The Bible in American Public Life, 1860-2005

Dilemmas at the center, insights from the margins.

Let’s Do the Mash

The Who Boys, the Beastles, and the Bible.

Does Prayer Change God?

Probing a fathomless mystery.

Listening for Another Reality

Adapting George MacDonald for radio.

Orphan in the Storm

Melville and the crisis of moral authority.

Leave the Path

Beth Kephart’s garden walks.

Reverse Hagiography

A new biography of Saint Augustine.

Territorial Ambitions

A geographical history of America.

Ungawa!

The curiously compelling saga of Tarzan.

Donnie and the Bunnyman

Why Donnie Darko is a favorite film on college campuses.

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