Books & Culture

November/December 2014 Issue

Volume 20, Number 6

January/February 2015 Issue
September/October 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

Big Brother Is Listening to You

David Lyon

For your own good, of course.

Why Place Matters

Stranger in a Strange Land: Collin Hansen

Revisiting Robert Hayden

Brett Foster

Our first African American Poet Laureate.

Remembering Richard Brautigan

Kirby Olson

The saddest story, again.

Time Machine

Jane Zwart

David Mitchell thinks larger.

Suspicious Packages

Michael Robbins

The poetry of Aaron Belz.

Faith and Writing in Norway

Lisa Ann Cockrel

A profile of Alf Kjetil Walgermo.

Bigots Are Really Bigoted

Naomi Schaefer Riley

But what else could you expect from “traditional beliefs”?

Inerrancy: A Cartesian Faux-Pas?

Russell W. Howell

“By good and necessary consequence.”

Hillary Redux

Amy E. Black

The front-runner assessed.

Playing the Numbers

Karl Crisman

In search of intelligible nerdiness.

The Unguarded Gaze

Bruce Herman

On John LaFarge.

The Road Not Taken

P. C. Kemeny

Debating evolution at Princeton, 1845-1929.

Doubting the Signature

Robert Bishop and Robert O’Connor

Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design.

Star-Mapping, Almsgiving, Back-Flips

Rachel Marie Stone

Doing what we’re created to do.

Juicers, Cheaters, and Men Who Hate Hillary

Andrea Palpant Dilley

Manhood anatomized.

Theology as Prayer

Alan G. Padgett

Sarah Coakley on sex, desire, and the Trinity.

Treasure in Heaven

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

“This is true religion.”

Foundation and Empire

Philip Jenkins

The early Arab conquests and the rise of Islam.

“Responsible Remembrance”

Amy Brown Hughes

Rethinking persecution and martyrdom in the early church.

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