Books & Culture

November/December 2010 Issue

Volume 16, Number 6

January/February 2011 Issue
September/October 2010 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

The Postgame Show

A new iteration of David Thomson’s indispensable companion for movie-lovers.

The Idea of the Book

Harder to define than you supposed.

The Bourgeois Revaluation

How the modern world came into being.

It’s Broken

Mark C. Taylor’s proposals to fix America’s colleges and universities.

Pro-Capitalist Christendom

Two cheers for the market economy.

“The Most Satisfying Trade”

Religion and commerce in Puritan America.

We Visit the Zoo

Reports on and from academe.

Americans in Africa

Conundrums of aid and development

Chaos and Tenderness

Stories by the Nigerian-born writer Sefi Atta.

Nigeria’s Pentecostal Revolution

Co-opted by the postcolonial state?

A Childhood in Kenya

Preserving “dreams in a time of war.”

The Big Green Apple

New York as a model for sustainability.

Reading Between the Lines

Women and the world of the early church.

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