Books & Culture

July/August 2015 Issue

Volume 21, Number 4

September/October 2015 Issue
May/June 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

Night of a Thousand Crimes

Raymond Chandler and the world of noir.

“It’s the Swing Itself I Dig”

LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka in correspondence with Edward Dorn.

A Handsaw Wrapped in Felt

Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child.”

Romantic Enthusiasm

Methodism and English Romanticism.

Bold, Beautiful, and Broken

The radical alternative of Abraham Kuyper.

Culture Czar

A snotty jeremiad.

“Soul Security”

Another look at Christianity and gangs in Guatemala.

Saint Junípero Serra

The mission to California.

University Blues

Lessons from Catholic higher education.

Man in Crisis

“Who are you and why?”

Battlefield Surgery

Rousas Rushdoony and Christian Reconstruction.

Sacred Drama

Ambrose, Augustine, and the “lived experience” of 4th-century baptism.

Purity and Danger

The curious case of Christianity in the history of anthropology.

Re-Writing My Life

A memoir of conversion, revised.

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