Books & Culture

September/October 2009 Issue

Volume 15, Number 5

November/December 2009 Issue
July/August 2009 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

Anti-Modernist

An illuminating new biography of Chesterton.

Chesterton’s Return

How GKC subverts the subversives.

Shakespeare as Crypto-Catholic

The argument fails to persuade.

Insinuating Characters

Early and uncollected stories by Mavis Gallant.

The Sounds of Silence

A manifesto against noise pollution.

Jesus the Jew in America

Why race is first and foremost a theological problem.

A New Day Dawning?

21st-century evangelicals.

“Old Pieties No Longer Sufficed”

Emily Dickinson and the loss of belief.

Post-Secular?

It depends on what you mean and where you look.

The Cross-Shaped Messiah

Volume 2 of a major commentary on Mark.

Along Came Mary

A biography of the intrepid Mary Slessor, missionary to Nigeria.

God & Math

Oil and water, or gin and tonic?

Where Did They Go?

The curious history of the Ten Lost Lost Tribes.

Inherent Vice

Thomas Pynchon’s private eye.

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