The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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Kirktober 2025: James Panero and Adam Simon on the Haunted House
October 28, 2025
On Tuesday, October 28, at 6:00 PM, you are invited to join University Bookman editor Luke Sheahan, Hollywood screenwriter Adam Simon, and New Criterion executive editor James Panero, as they explore the theme of the haunted house in gothic literature and its relationship to conservative thought and imagination.
Register for this free webinar here.
Pharisees and Neocolonialists
Casey Chalk reviews Obianuju Ekeocha’s Target Africa, exposing the Western forces now pushing leftist ideology in Africa.
The Artist and His Epoch
Adam Schwartz reviews a new collection of the prose of David Jones that reveals his developing critique of the modern world.
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.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
