Books & Culture

January/February 2010 Issue

Volume 16, Number 1

March/April 2010 Issue
November/December 2009 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

The Milosz Year

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

Longing for “the restoration of all things.”

The Professor’s Death Song

James Calvin Schaap

What wasn’t said at the funeral.

Faith Under Fire

Timothy Larsen

Americans in World War I.

The Sunbelt Coalition

Randall J. Stephens

Evangelicals and politics in a new light.

Invisible Faith

George Marsden

The Life and work of Henry Luce.

Why We Get Along

James L. Guth and Lyman A. Kellstedt

Religion and public life in the U.S.

A Christ We Can Follow

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

The new kenotic theology

The First Great Schism

Robert Bruce Mullin

AD 400 to AD 600.

Emigrant Nation

David A. Skeel

Italy, giving and receiving.

The Second Sex, the Second Time Around

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

A new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s groundbreaking book.

The Enchanted Critic

Joseph Bottum

What to say about fairy tales.

The Sondheim Reckoning

John H. McWhorter

A composer speaks his mind.

Miss Peach, Singular Muse

Brett Foster

Surprising, engaging, not to be missed.

Boy Books

Donna Freitas

An endangered species?

Not-So-Brief Encounter

Aaron Belz

Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.

Funny Girl

Otto Selles

A memoir by comedian Sarah Silverman.

Abundant Life

Kendra Langdon Juskus

Creation care and divine generosity.

Another Stranger in a Strange Land

Christina Bieber Lake

Alice B. Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr.

Recommended Reading

Elissa Elliott

Human, all too human.

Endgame

S.T. Karnick

The fate of secularism.

<em>Il Caso Silone</em>

Mark Walhout

Modern Italy through one writer’s complicated life.

In Defense of a Common Culture

Alan Wolfe

Back to the fray with E.D. Hirsch.

The Great Divider

Gerald R. McDermott

Jonathan Edwards and American culture.

“The Hebrew Runner”

Arthur Menke

A Jewish track star of the early 20th century.

And God Created Football

Intimations of the divine in a well-executed screen pass.

Reanimation

John H. McWhorter

The bounty of the “Dinosaur Renaissance.”

The Jerk

Aaron Belz

Robert Burns, biographied.

“The Christianity of This Land”

Lauren F. Winner

Three fresh angles on religion in the American South.

Islam in Europe

Leah Seppanen Anderson

Conflicting reports.

Transmission Routes

World Christianity and American churches.

“I Am Not Who You Think I Am”

Katherine Jeffrey

Situating The Shack in a Christian literary landscape.

Man of Sorrows

Alan Jacobs

Samuel Johnson and the power of sympathy.

Jefferson’s America?

Mark Noll

From 1789 to 1815, in Gordon Wood’s telling.

Prisons and the Body of Christ

Jason Byassee

Justice and grace.

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