It's Books and Culture: A Christian Review.
I subscribed to it a few months back, and each time it comes in, I indulge myself in its oversize pages, salivating at all the great books I will never have time to read. The book advertisements are so substantial that they're almost as good as the essay-length reviews. Check out the online version, but don't be fooled. It's much more fun for book-lovers to experience the review in its 11-by-17, full-color, papery glory.
http://www.booksandculture.com
Most of the reviewed works are non-fiction. The reviewers are thoughtful, objective, and not mounted on any political hobbyhorses. Essayists also write on cultural issues. This month's review contains a piece examining the prosperity gospel, an analysis of the Cannes Film Festival, and a lament on the decline of the Indiana Jones franchise.
Some sample titles I found in both ads and reviews:
Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo Bentzen and Heltzel, eds.
Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us About Suffering and Salvation by Stephen J. Nichols
Culture-Making: Rediscovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch
Saint Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Richard Dawkins, ed.
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement by Sally McMillen
Conversations with American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between by Dale Brown
Spectacular Sins and their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ by John Piper
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