Books & Culture

May/June 2015 Issue

Volume 21, Number 3

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March/April 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

Terrible Simplifiers

Failing to account for the agency of the marginalized.

A Century Past “The Soldier”

Rupert Brooke and the chain of memory.

The Shivers

A well-chosen selection of classic horror stories.

Who’s Afraid of Shirley Jackson?

Glimpses of something sinister, overwhelming—and often quite funny.

Living as a Beast

James Hogg’s enigmatic masterpiece.

Coleridge and the Maker

Revisiting the “Biographia Literaria.”

“Something Beautiful for Japan”

The moral imagination of Hayao Miyazaki.

Achievement Slaves

The pathologies of élite education.

Whose Status Quo?

Teachers, the public, and educational reform.

Believing to Understand

Richard Hays on figural Christology.

Inequality and the American Family

How growing income gaps shape relationships.

Family History, Revisited

In early America, stepfamilies were everywhere.

The Foreign Mission School

“A seminary for the education of heathen youth.”

C. Kuipers, Mission Novelist

Bringing Christ to the Zuni—and to churchgoers back home.

Missing the Point

On Augustine and the peculiarities of academic publishing.

“Endlessly Overflowing”

An invitation to sacramental wonder.

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