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

The quest for perpetual euphoria.

Two by Two

Two poems apiece by two poets.

A Fateful Clash

American missionaries in the Levant.

Macaulay in the Dock

Was he utterly base, contemptible, and odious?

1812: The War Within the War

A vivid and compelling revisionist account.

On the Way

The long life of the “Taoteching.”

Born to Believe

The religion of ultra-marathon running.

Pray Without Ceasing

A pilgrimage inspired by the Jesus Prayer.

To Plato or Not to Plato?

Two commentaries on Hebrews.

Nothing Ordinary

The story of a fictional Australian philosopher.

Wild Creature

The tempestuous life of Sarah Berhhardt

The Poet’s Nature Subdued

W. H. Auden’s last major work.

Discernment, Discernment

Caveats for evangelicals flirting with monasticism.

The Handel Revolution

A great composer reconceived.

Fighting Family

What’s at stake in ‘The Fighter’.

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