Books & Culture

July/August 2015 Issue

Volume 21, Number 4

September/October 2015 Issue
May/June 2015 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

Night of a Thousand Crimes

Dayna Clemens

Raymond Chandler and the world of noir.

“A Body Is a Body, Created by God”

Aleah Marsden

The tale of an anchoress.

Amazon Review

Randall J. VanderMey

One Nation Under God

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Fea

“It’s the Swing Itself I Dig”

Micah Mattix

LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka in correspondence with Edward Dorn.

“But Now I Am Found”

David McNutt

The Lost Man Booker Prize.

A Handsaw Wrapped in Felt

Jane Zwart

Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child.”

Romantic Enthusiasm

Jeffrey W. Barbeau

Methodism and English Romanticism.

The Nigerian Jihad

Philip Jenkins

Boko Haram.

Captives of the Prophet

David A. Hoekema

The 1996 Uganda kidnappings.

Bold, Beautiful, and Broken

Matthew Kaemingk

The radical alternative of Abraham Kuyper.

Culture Czar

Sarah Ruden

A snotty jeremiad.

“Soul Security”

Rudy Nelson

Another look at Christianity and gangs in Guatemala.

Saint Junípero Serra

Rick Kennedy

The mission to California.

You Mean Jesus ‘Wasn’t’ Nordic?

Peter T. Chattaway

Films about Jesus from the Middle East.

University Blues

Mark Hutchinson

Lessons from Catholic higher education.

Man in Crisis

Alan Jacobs

“Who are you and why?”

Knitting Without a License

Rachel Marie Stone

On Elizabeth Zimmermann.

Battlefield Surgery

Douglas Wilson

Rousas Rushdoony and Christian Reconstruction.

Sacred Drama

Jonathan Reimer

Ambrose, Augustine, and the “lived experience” of 4th-century baptism.

The Clear Cut, the Cutthroat, and the Cascade Effect

Matthew Dickerson

Everything is connected.

Purity and Danger

Joel Robbins

The curious case of Christianity in the history of anthropology.

Re-Writing My Life

Holly Ordway

A memoir of conversion, revised.

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