The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

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 New Storytelling, From Tocqueville to Fortnite
Titus Techera connects the rise of computer games with the restlessness of young men in our cultural crisis.

Prophets of Paradise?
Jacob Bruggeman discusses the techno-utopian dream in a review of Nicholas Carr’s Utopia Is Creepy.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.