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

Longing for “the restoration of all things.”

The Professor’s Death Song

What wasn’t said at the funeral.

Faith Under Fire

Americans in World War I.

The Sunbelt Coalition

Evangelicals and politics in a new light.

Invisible Faith

The Life and work of Henry Luce.

Emigrant Nation

Italy, giving and receiving.

The Second Sex, the Second Time Around

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

The Enchanted Critic

What to say about fairy tales.

Miss Peach, Singular Muse

Surprising, engaging, not to be missed.

Boy Books

An endangered species?

Not-So-Brief Encounter

Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.

Funny Girl

A memoir by comedian Sarah Silverman.

Abundant Life

Creation care and divine generosity.

Endgame

The fate of secularism.

<em>Il Caso Silone</em>

Modern Italy through one writer’s complicated life.

In Defense of a Common Culture

Back to the fray with E.D. Hirsch.

The Great Divider

Jonathan Edwards and American culture.

“The Hebrew Runner”

A Jewish track star of the early 20th century.

And God Created Football

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

Reanimation

The bounty of the “Dinosaur Renaissance.”

The Jerk

Robert Burns, biographied.

“The Christianity of This Land”

Three fresh angles on religion in the American South.

Transmission Routes

World Christianity and American churches.

“I Am Not Who You Think I Am”

Situating The Shack in a Christian literary landscape.

Man of Sorrows

Samuel Johnson and the power of sympathy.

Jefferson’s America?

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

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