Books & Culture

March/April 2016 Issue

Volume 22, Number 2

May/June 2016 Issue
January/February 2016 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

Defining “Evangelical”

David Bebbington

Part 1 in an occasional series.

Our Shared Brokenness

Tae Sung

On mass incarceration.

Avoiding the F-word.

Stranger in a Strange Land: Susan Wise Bauer

You Are (Not) What You Wear

B. D. McClay

Clothes and the culture wars.

Murder at the MLA

David Lyle Jeffrey

An escape into reality.

How Tom Grew

Malcolm Forbes

The formative years of T. S. Eliot.

My Date with Mary Oliver

Paul J. Willis

A memorable evening in Santa Barbara.

Finding Joy

Don W. King

The first full life of Joy Davidman in a generation.

Decidedly Odd

Sørina Higgins

A long-awaited biography of Charles Williams.

Do Not Enter!

Jane Zwart

David Mitchell’s pendant to ‘The Bone Clocks’.

“Christian Revolutionary Love.”

Michael Ledger-Lomas

The Kingdom of God in East London.

An Ethiopian Saint

Philip Jenkins

The life of Walatta Petros.

Women and the Ironies of Providence

Sarah Ruden

Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.

The Long History of Human Rights

John Witte, Jr.

Assessing an influential revisionist account.

Attrition: The “Bleak Strategy” of World War I

Donald A. Yerxa

Terrible, yes; not pointless.

Enmity & Loss, Love & Hope

Roy Anker

The Force is real.

The Call of the Nightingale

Michael Toscano

Majid Majidi’s films are love-songs to God.

“Other Baptists”

Kimlyn Bender

A generous orthodoxy.

“Dangerous and Suspect Men”

Helen Andrews

Clerical celibacy in France, 1720-1815.

On the Hammock, Reading About Wilderness Wanderings

John Copeland Nagle

Hiking as a spiritual practice.

The Counter-Desecration Phrasebook

Alan Jacobs

On Robert Macfarlane.

The Critic’s Job and Why It Matters

Alissa Wilkinson

Appreciating an art in its own right.

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