It has been ten years since H. W. Brands complained in The Atlantic about "Founders Chic," or the unrelenting flood of adulatory ...

Editor's note: Eric Metaxas and I first met almost 20 years ago, and we've been friends ever since. This conversation was conducted via email. ...

Editor's note: Victor LaValle is the author of four books of fiction: Slapboxing with Jesus (1999), The Ecstatic (2002), Big Machine (2009), ...

Editor's note: Regular readers of Books & Culture will be familiar with Wesley Hill, who has just completed his first year as assistant ...

Designer animals are here! GloFish, for instance—a variety of zebrafish native to South Asia—are a highly marketable commodity ...

In a 1959 letter to painter Jasper Johns, the poet Frank O'Hara had this to say of Robert Duncan: "I can't stand him myself, ...

The history of Books & Culture through one writer.

Okay, neither Josephus nor the author of his biography, A Jew Among Romans, was/is a painter, poet, or critic like the Pre-Raphaelites of the ...

Editor's note: Regular readers of Books & Culture will be familiar with Wesley Hill, who has just completed his first year as assistant professor ...

Emily Anthes has seen the future—and it glows. That is, at least, for our pets. For as this lively and entertaining book illustrates, ...

In 1653, a painting of Jesus crowned with thorns was brought to the convent of San Paolo in Orvieto, Italy, by a young woman taking the veil ...

David Downing's Masaryk Station is the sixth and concluding installment in a series of novels centering on a journalist, John Russell, who is ...

My senior year in high school, I didn't read what the other kids read. I was an experiment. Our progressive high school administration wanted ...

In a past life, before migrating into the world of graduate theological education, I spent 17 years teaching undergraduate philosophy courses. ...

As David Weintraub, Lee Clarke, and Micheal Hickerson have shown, Donald Yeomans makes a persuasive case not only for the scientific interest ...

100 poems from 25 years of the annual anthology.

Most of my fellow teachers of literature know that students often think of almost any book-length narrative work as a "novel." ...

When Jesus said we will know a tree by its fruit, he was referring to individual morality (see Matt. 7:15-20; Luke 6:43-45). Good trees produce ...

Can you imagine suddenly discovering a trove of major new works by one of the greatest Christian authors of the last century, a worthy companion ...

Philip Kerr’s new novel centers on the Katyn massacre.