The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Join friends of the Bookman in New York City on December 8, 2025 for the Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture.
This Is Not How We Got Here
Sumantra Maitra is underwhelmed by the evidence presented in Timothy Snyder’s conventional new polemic.
The Neighborliness Not Taken
Ryan Shinkel gleans lessons from the effective new documentary on educational televangelist Fred Rogers.
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 Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
