The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Repulsed by the Education Cartel
Elizabeth Bittner reviews Richard Bishirjian’s account of lessons learned from the founding and fall of Yorktown University.
Why Movies are Prayers
Mark Judge celebrates critic Josh Larsen’s Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings
When Burke Became Burke
William F. Byrne welcomes Emily Jones’s new intellectual history, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830–1914.
Tipping the State’s Sacred Cows
Jacob Bruggeman reviews Patrick Garry’s brief broadside on The False Promise of Big Government.
The Action of Grace
Trevor C. Merrill reviews an engrossing collection of short stories by Joshua Hren.
The Forgotten Farnese
Alberto M. Fernandez reviews a new biography of a forgotten figure of the Spanish Golden Age.
The Humane Vision of Elmore Leonard
Will Hoyt reviews the new Library of America volume on Elmore Leonard in light of the author’s full corpus.
Two Leaders at War
Chuck Chalberg looks at Lincoln and Churchill: Statesmen at War by Lewis Lehrman.
The Tsarist Commander
James Baresel reviews a biography of Russian Commander Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.