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

The Age Demanded an Image

On dogs and Malcolm Gladwell.

Slow Medicine

The efficiency of inefficiency.

In Awe of the Living God

Against reducing religion to belief.

The Mystery of Sarah Losh

Self-taught architect of a curious and beautiful church.

Where’s Home?

Unbreakable claims.

Listen

The Thousand and One Nights.

Dying for Food

A dazzling family chronicle.

Pitiless

Omniscience that stints on tenderness.

In the Halls of Story

David Bentley Hart’s beguiling fictions.

The Power of a Poem

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

Speaking Power to Truth

The Norton Anthology of English Lit.

Living Maps

Into the heart of the heartland.

Reading Robert Frost

Part anthology, part commentary.

A Pakistani Christian Woman

A moving and slyly humorous tale.

The Mad Farmer

Wendell Berry’s poems, new and collected.

Write What You Know?

Charles Jackson, rediscovered.

Minnesota Gothic

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

Rich and Strange

Chinese Shakespeares.

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