Books & Culture

November/December 2011 Issue

Volume 17, Number 6

January/February 2012 Issue
September/October 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

Saving the Birds

A gentle activism.

Long Live the King

The 400th anniversary of the KJV.

Grunt’s-Eye-View

Bing West’s report from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan Demystified

No, not “the graveyard of empires.”

An Ambitious Sociology

Returning personhood to social science.

We Are Family

The brain is host to competing interests.

The Ghost Writer

Walking with Iain Sinclair.

A 17th-Century Turkish Traveler

The omnivorous curiosity of Evliya Celebi.

Modernists Abroad

Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West.

Cold Comfort

“The conflict of modern motherhood.”

A Lucky Calvinist

Dick Van Dyke, in his own words.

Wombs and Bombs

The Art of Toshiko Takaezu

Italian Harlem’s Madonna

A new edition of Robert Orsi’s classic study.

The Novel as Case Study

Bharati Mukherjee’s new book.

Unto Thyself Any Graven Images

William Blake’s illustrations on biblical themes.

A Laureate in Letters

Philip Levine in correspondence, 1994-2011.

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