The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Depths of Hell, Heights of English
Casey Chalk welcomes a new reader’s guide to Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Timing Devices
Daniel James Sundahl reviews a new collection of poems from Paul Mariani that help us connect our ordinary time with the sacred.
Sources for Rebuilding
Anthony M. Barr looks at a few other voices that could contribute to the conversation started by Yuval Levin’s A Time to Build.
The Winter Sportsmen-Soldiers
Bill Meehan reviews a real-life Alpine adventure from World War II.
The Elon Musk of Botany Bay?
Karl C. Schaffenburg reviews an uneven biography of the great botanist Joseph Banks.
Enlightening the Masses
Luke Nicastro reviews a book that does not quite explain the failure of the Enlightenment.
Liberty, or Liberties, or Leviathan?
Jeffrey J. Folks reviews a book on the lives behind our current understanding of the U.S. Constitution.
A Quarantine Reading Journal
Eric Hutchinson shares his pandemic reading journal, a mix of memorial, reflection, and therapeutic laughter.
On Goats, and What to Do
Karl C. Schaffenburg welcomes an engaging book on what farming can teach us about the difference between technical capacity and wisdom.
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