What Do We Want from Sheryl Sandberg?
If you look up Sheryl Sandberg on Google trends you will a notice a few key spikes–when she initially became the COO of Facebook in 2008, a story in the Christian Science Monitor on her making $30...
View ArticleThe Real C. S. Lewis: Fascinating and Flawed
The late, great British author died the same day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and yet remains one of the most influential writers and thinkers in Western Christianity today. His...
View ArticlePost of the Week
R. J. Moeller’s post on C. S. Lewis’s double life as a Christian author and a complicated man. The post Post of the Week appeared first on Acculturated.
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You’re Not the Horrible Man I Married Anymore!
In the first installment of this series on great novels about marriage we looked at a thousand-plus-page epic novel about life and death in medieval Norway: early death, mutilation, miserable weddings,...
View ArticleC. S. Lewis’s Narnia: Mouthwash for the Imagination
When a former Archbishop of Canterbury sits down to write a book that delves into the theology of your literary career, one would not expect the primary texts analyzed to be the series of children’s...
View ArticleKylie Bisutti: From Victoria’s Secret Stunner to Church Lady Scold
It’s possible to be too religious. To get to a point where you’re so pious that you think even God can’t forgive your sins. That partly describes former Victoria’s Secret model Kylie Bisutti, who has...
View ArticleWhat Women Don’t Want
A new book, What Do Women Want: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, apparently makes the shocking revelation that women are actually carnal, wild beasts who have been socially re-conditioned...
View ArticleJonah Lehrer’s Journey to Redemption
Writer Jonah Lehrer, who resigned in disgrace last year from The New Yorker after he was caught plagiarizing from himself and others as well as fabricating quotes, is back. By the age of 31, the...
View ArticleHappy Money
Money can buy happiness, apparently—and it actually doesn’t cost all that much. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton’s new book Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending is a nerdy but fun beach-read...
View ArticleA Return to Feminism’s Lost Roots
Why do so many women answer the question “Are you a feminist” in the negative? To read Christina Hoff Sommers’s new study of the history of “freedom feminism” is to understand that the current fad for...
View ArticleBooks, Bookstores, and Libraries
Recently some friends and I were talking about a new women’s magazine. I told one friend who was looking to get a copy, “Barnes and Noble plans to carry it so you can get it …oh…actually, sorry all the...
View ArticleConservatives, Pop Culture, and Outrage Orgasms
There is a scene in the Tom Cruise film All the Right Moves where a young football player (Cruise) explodes at his coach. The team had a victory locked up when the coach called a bad play that resulted...
View ArticleWhen Is Bridget Jones Going To Grow Up?
Here’s what Bridget Jones’ Diary and Pride and Prejudice really did have in common: Both Bridget Jones and Elizabeth Bennet matured significantly by their respective stories’ ends. Elizabeth, as many...
View ArticleNovels We Love That You’ll Love Too: Your 2014 Reading List
Last year at this time I offered up a list of novels and works of fiction that I thought worthy of your attention during the course of 2013. There are plenty of entertainment distractions to fill your...
View ArticleMore Books We Love – Just in Time for Christmas
Inspired by my friend and Acculturated colleague R.J. Moeller, who recently suggested a list of novels for your reading pleasure in 2014, and by the always thought-provoking journalist and blogger...
View ArticleHow Not to Recommend Books
My friend behind the always witty, thought-provoking, and iconoclastic Prototrype blog alerted me to a list by pop science fixture Neil deGrasse Tyson of 8 books that every intelligent person should...
View ArticleAre America’s Favorite Books Just Our Favorite Movies?
Last March, 2,234 U.S. adults surveyed online in a Harris Poll were asked to list their ten favorite books. The results give us some insight into our reading habits, but are they also telling us...
View ArticleThe Lunacy of “Trigger Warnings”
It’s official: we have raised at least one generation so privileged and self-centered that it makes demands on life instead of the other way around. The New York Times reported recently on the rise of...
View ArticleWhy Romance Novels Turn Women On
A whopping 25 percent of American adults did not read a single book in 2013, according to The Pew Research Center. In just over three decades, the number of non-reading adults has nearly tripled....
View ArticleSex and the Single Girl: A Review of ‘How to Build a Girl’
So here’s the problem: I really liked Caitlin Moran’s newest book, How to Build a Girl. Her protagonist, Johanna Morrigan, is funny, interesting, smart, and complicated. Her insecurities and...
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