Annihilation (Anéantir) By Michel Houellebecq. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. Hardcover, 544 pages, $30.00. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González. France in 2027 is the setting of Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, Annihilation (Anéantir)....
Russell Kirk and the Conservative Disposition (Section 1) Dr. Jeff Polet, Ph.D.Director of the Ford Leadership Forum at the Gerald R. Ford Mr. Michael MaibachDistinguished Fellow for Save Our States Mr. Michael LuccheseFounder and CEO of...
Let Us Talk of Many Things By William F. Buckley Jr. Prima Lifestyles, 2000. Hardcover, 544 pages, $30.00. Reviewed by Bill Meehan. William F. Buckley Jr., friend of Russell Kirk, circulated The University Bookman to National Review subscribers for a number of years....
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa By Anthony Grafton. Belknap Press, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. “Dame Frances Yates” is a name that usually does not cross the lips of the educated public. However, in the field of...
Russell Kirk’s “Rights and Duties” translated into Italian by Dr. Agostino Carrino The Kirk Center is very pleased to announce that Russell Kirk’s book Rights and Duties has been translated into Italian by the distinguished legal scholar Agostino...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.