Books & Culture

November/December 2015 Issue

Volume 21, Number 6

January/February 2016 Issue
September/October 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

High-Minded Murder

John G. Turner

The death of Patrice Lumumba.

What the Bible Has to Teach Us About Writing Fiction

Stranger in a Strange Land: Ruchama Feuerman

A Perplexing Guide to Movie-Watching

Asher Gelzer-Govatos

This primer suffers from a severe case of ADHD.

A Promise of a Future Fullness

Micah Mattix

Scott Cairns’ collected poems.

Salted with Fire

Hugh Cook

Crying from the heart.

Trollope’s Professions

Richard Gibson

How the novelist’s “Autobiography” has been misread.

“A Supremely Independent But Not Isolated Mind”

Jennifer L. Holberg

Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” annotated.

“Unconventional Holy Ground”

Karen Swallow Prior

The rise of the novel and the modern self.

Indentured Women’s Forgotten Lives

Catherine Woodiwiss

A great-granddaughter assembles fragments of a lost history.

“She Gave Me a Key and I Took It”

Rachel Marie Stone

The stories of Lucia Berlin.

Revisiting “The Secularization of the Academy”

Mark Noll et al.

A symposium 25 years on.

How to Be Hauerwas

Tony Jones

It ain’t easy.

How to Write History

Bruce Kuklick

Bernard Bailyn’s prescriptions.

Philip the Imprudent

Carlos Eire

Micromanaging an empire.

Charles the Unwise

Joseph Bottum

Why he lost his head.

“America’s Book”

Peter J. Thuesen

Mark Noll on the Bible in public life.

Naming & Knowing

Paul J. Willis

A splendid field guide to trees, best used at your desk.

A Natural History of Writing

Alan Jacobs

From cuneiform to computer keystrokes.

Outing Early Christians

Carissa Turner Smith

Scholarly clickbait.

Those Other Gospels

Amy L. B. Peeler

How believers in the first millennium read non-canonical texts.

Asking the Right Questions

Noah Toly

Jacques Ellul’s home Bible studies—and the light they shed on his work as a whole.

Toward a Native Theology

Gene L. Green

The legacy of Richard Twiss.

Art for All of Us?

Sarah Ruden

Greek tragedy and war veterans.

From Charisms to Calling

Wesley Hill

Women and the priesthood.

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