Books & Culture

May/June 2014 Issue

Volume 20, Number 3

July/August 2014 Issue
March/April 2014 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

Necessary Distance

Tim Stafford

Gandhi’s formative decades in South Africa.

Ever Reforming?

Jerry Pattengale

Diane Ravitch’s 180 turn.

The Fox-Hunt

Tom Shippey

Searching for a national epic.

Jimmy Carter’s rise and fall.

Todd C. Ream and Drew Moser

And the fate of progressive evangelicalism.

The Next Revolution

Rick Ostrander

Global Christian higher ed.

Stumbling Around in the Light

Brett Foster

On Conor McPherson.

A Graceful Turn

Sharon Skeel

The story of a dancer.

“We Yearn for Something”

Eric Miller

American adventures in self-invention.

How They (Really) See Us

Sarah Ruden

The impact of America’s media exports.

More Letters from Robert Frost

Mark Walhout

Correcting the record.

Updike: A Life in Motion

Scott Dill

Amiably coaxing us to pay attention.

Gods, Guns, and Guatemala

Rudy & Shirley Nelson and Paula Huston

A conversation between novelists.

Saturday Is for Funerals

Bernice Martin

Illness, death, and burial in Africa.

Dust or Ashes?

Virginia Stem Owens

At the National Museum of Funeral History.

Alexandrian Attitudes

Philip Jenkins

A new source for the “Secret Gospel of Mark.”

“Young Catholic America”

Anna Sutherland

A sobering report.

Another Strange Death

David Martin

Protestant England.

“His Wonders to Perform”

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

The memoirs of David Martin.

Flood Theology

Peter T. Chattaway

The Great and Holy War

Stranger in a Strange Land: Joseph Loconte

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