Books & Culture

March/April 2011 Issue

Volume 17, Number 2

May/June 2011 Issue
January/February 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

Be Happy

Joseph Bottum

The quest for perpetual euphoria.

Rewriting the History of Evangelicalism

Mark Noll and Bruce Hindmarsh

W. R. Ward, 1925-2010

Two by Two

Luci Shaw and Laurance Wieder

Two poems apiece by two poets.

Gleaning as We Go

Stranger in a Strange Land: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Literature as “equipment for living.”

Opening the Memory Box

Paul Grant

Chile After Pinochet.

A Fateful Clash

Rayyan Al-Shawaf

American missionaries in the Levant.

Macaulay in the Dock

David Bebbington

Was he utterly base, contemptible, and odious?

1812: The War Within the War

Richard Carwardine

A vivid and compelling revisionist account.

The Visual Culture of Orthodox Judaism

Lauren F. Winner

The medium and the message.

On the Way

Laurance Wieder

The long life of the “Taoteching.”

The ‘Feminine Mystique,’ Revisited

Naomi Schaefer Riley

American women, then and now.

Born to Believe

Arthur Menke

The religion of ultra-marathon running.

Pray Without Ceasing

A pilgrimage inspired by the Jesus Prayer.

To Plato or Not to Plato?

Robert Gundry

Two commentaries on Hebrews.

Baylor Going Forward

Interview by Todd C. Ream

A conversation with Ken Starr.

Nothing Ordinary

Jane Zwart

The story of a fictional Australian philosopher.

Wild Creature

Betty Smartt Carter

The tempestuous life of Sarah Berhhardt

The Poet’s Nature Subdued

Alan Jacobs

W. H. Auden’s last major work.

Discernment, Discernment

Ken Stewart

Caveats for evangelicals flirting with monasticism.

The Handel Revolution

David Martin

A great composer reconceived.

Fighting Family

Crystal Downing

What’s at stake in ‘The Fighter’.

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