Books & Culture

May/June 2015 Issue

Volume 21, Number 3

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March/April 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

Terrible Simplifiers

Noah Toly

Failing to account for the agency of the marginalized.

Thinking Slowly About God

Stranger in a Strange Land: Ric Machuga

A Century Past “The Soldier”

Paul Willis

Rupert Brooke and the chain of memory.

“Everybody Worships”

Alissa Wilkinson

On David Foster Wallace.

The Shivers

Victor LaValle

A well-chosen selection of classic horror stories.

Who’s Afraid of Shirley Jackson?

Martyn Wendell Jones

Glimpses of something sinister, overwhelming—and often quite funny.

Living as a Beast

Philip Jenkins

James Hogg’s enigmatic masterpiece.

Coleridge and the Maker

Alan Jacobs

Revisiting the “Biographia Literaria.”

How the British Empire Got Its Spots

Michael Ledger-Lomas

A tale of ten cities.

The Road to Rome

Timothy Larsen

Starring Bob Hope.

“Something Beautiful for Japan”

Michael Toscano

The moral imagination of Hayao Miyazaki.

Achievement Slaves

Perry L. Glanzer

The pathologies of élite education.

Whose Status Quo?

Todd C. Ream

Teachers, the public, and educational reform.

Believing to Understand

Scot McKnight

Richard Hays on figural Christology.

Inequality and the American Family

Anna Sutherland

How growing income gaps shape relationships.

Family History, Revisited

Lauren F. Winner

In early America, stepfamilies were everywhere.

The Foreign Mission School

Richard A. Bailey

“A seminary for the education of heathen youth.”

C. Kuipers, Mission Novelist

James Calvin Schaap

Bringing Christ to the Zuni—and to churchgoers back home.

Missing the Point

Sarah Ruden

On Augustine and the peculiarities of academic publishing.

“Endlessly Overflowing”

Rachel Marie Stone

An invitation to sacramental wonder.

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