Books & Culture

July/August 2013 Issue

Volume 19, Number 4

September/October 2013 Issue
May/June 2013 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

Political Evil

Stranger in a Strange Land: Eric Miller

The Age Demanded an Image

Sarah Ruden

On dogs and Malcolm Gladwell.

Slow Medicine

Jonathan Hiskes

The efficiency of inefficiency.

In Awe of the Living God

David L. O'Hara

Against reducing religion to belief.

The Mystery of Sarah Losh

Alan Jacobs

Self-taught architect of a curious and beautiful church.

Where’s Home?

Unbreakable claims.

Evidence of God’s Providence

Interview by Todd C. Ream

A conversation with D. Michael Lindsay.

Listen

Michael Robbins

The Thousand and One Nights.

Dying for Food

Lisa Ann Cockrel

A dazzling family chronicle.

Pitiless

Jane Zwart

Omniscience that stints on tenderness.

In the Halls of Story

Betty Smartt Carter

David Bentley Hart’s beguiling fictions.

The Power of a Poem

L. L. Barkat

Edward Thomas, Robert Frost, and “The Road Not Taken.”

Speaking Power to Truth

Daniel E. Ritchie

The Norton Anthology of English Lit.

Living Maps

Daniel Bowman, Jr.

Into the heart of the heartland.

Reading Robert Frost

Mark Walhout

Part anthology, part commentary.

A Pakistani Christian Woman

Rayyan Al-Shawaf

A moving and slyly humorous tale.

After the Trail of Tears

James Mackay

Cherokee Christianity.

The Mad Farmer

Jason Peters

Wendell Berry’s poems, new and collected.

Write What You Know?

Casey N. Cep

Charles Jackson, rediscovered.

Minnesota Gothic

LaVonne Neff

A new novel by the author of “The Night Birds.”

Larkin’s Monument

Thom Satterlee

The Complete Poems.

Rich and Strange

Keith Jones

Chinese Shakespeares.

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