Books & Culture

January/February 2013 Issue

Volume 19, Number 1

March/April 2013 Issue
November/December 2012 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 Politics of Guilt

Coming to terms with past wrongs.

Fighting for a Voice

American poetry and the Civil War.

The End of the End of the World

Margaret Atwood completes a dystopian trilogy.

The Virtues of Dullness

Two cheers for the European Union.

The Spirit of Moral Reasoning

Oliver O’Donovan’s Pentecostal ethics.

Follow the Money

Peter Brown on the making of Western Christianity.

Who’s Radical?

Bill McKibben’s testimony.

Who’s in Charge Here?

American evangelicalism’s “crisis of authority.”

The Other, Derrida

Don’t smooth out the folds.

Unexpected Refuge

Thomas Pynchon comes home.

Statesmanship or Gamesmanship?

How the U.S. Congress works—and how it doesn’t.

In the City We Trust

Urban dynamism, utopian dreams, and human brokenness.

Learning How to See

Japan’s response to disaster.

Fatherhood and Loss

Where are the good stories?

Whose Pluralism?

David Hollinger on liberal Protestantism.

What’s a Prayer Book for?

A “biography” of the Book of the Common Prayer.

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