Books & Culture

November/December 2013 Issue

Volume 19, Number 6

January/February 2014 Issue
September/October 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

Everything Matters

Edwidge Danticat’s new novel is a gem.

The Scandal of Secular Indoctrination

Stranger in a Strange Land: Perry L. Glanzer

In the Forest with David Douglas

Paul J. Willis

A restless naturalist.

Why Intellectual History Matters

Interview by Craig Mattson and Michael VanderWeele

A conversation with Susan Schreiner.

The Lantern-Bearers

Philip Jenkins

Roman Britain seen afresh.

Escape from Oblivion

Ronald K. Rittgers

A 16th-century life.

Play This Song

Jeff Johnson

Beck’s countercultural “Song Reader.”

The Work and Play of Mourning

Michael Robbins

Poems of grief.

Strange Things with Meaning

Brett Foster

Poems of devotion.

Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Paul Baumann

The letters of J. F. Powers.

Off-Kilter Everywhere

Susan VanZanten

From Nigeria to America.

The Cult of Sweeping Competence

Sarah Ruden

On suicide, smoking, and heroes of conscience.

Oh Good Grief!

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

The Complete Peanuts.

America’s Most Consequential Battle

Collin Hansen

Allen Guelzo’s compelling chronicle of Gettysburg.

Elected Representatives

Rethinking the doctrine of election.

Are Christian Mothers Human?

Three reports from the battlefield.

A Nice Place to Leave

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Good news and bad news about small towns.

Jurassic Evangelicalism

The legacy of Carl F. H. Henry.

No Apologies

Alan Jacobs

How Christianity makes “emotional sense.”

Holy Power Source!

Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

Andy Crouch on redeeming power.

Jesus as a Jewish Jihadist

Robert Gundry

Reza Aslan’s “Zealot.”

Christ Our Center

Edward T. Oakes, sj

Joseph Ratzinger’s witness.

His Kingdom Stretch from Shore to Shore

Mark Noll

Church history, decidedly not parochial.

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