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The Non-Human World of China Miéville
Although I do not particularly admire the criticism of Harold Bloom, his Freudian theory that ambitious authors want to “kill” their strong literary predecessors is getting a lot of empirical support these days from British fantasy writers, first from Phillip Pullman,...
Farewells and Looking Ahead
By the time this issue reaches our subscribers, the nation will have chosen its two contending nominees for President. Unfortunately, the current candidates do not seem to have taken to heart the advice suggested by Christopher Layne, whose book, No More Illusions, is...
The Problem with the World is You?
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get it by Jim Wallis. New York: HarperCollins, 2005, 2006. 432 pages. Nearly a century ago G. K. Chesterton asked “what’s wrong with the world?” His first and last answer was always the same: “I am.” In...
The Judicial Mask
A new Bookman online review from Gerald J. Russello covers How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner.
Eliot Conference
The Kirk Center is co-sponsoring a conference on T. S. Eliot on August 14–16, 2008 in conjunction with the new edition of Dr. Kirk's book, Eliot and His Age. See the conference page for details. A full schedule is now available.
Colson on Kirk
We were pleased to note Chuck Colson referencing Russell Kirk so warmly, and correctly noting Dr. Kirk's rejection of ideology, in a commentary from June 6, 2008 titled “True Conservatism.”
Defending the Conversation
In the newest of the Bookman's web-only content, James Seaton reviews Anthony Kronman's stirring defense of a traditional liberal-arts education. Click here for the review!
A Stirring Defense of the Conversation
Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life by Anthony T. Kronman. Yale University Press (New Haven), 320 pages, hardcover, $27.50; 2007 In the decades since The Closing of the American Mind became a bestseller, many critics...
Kirk on Eliot
A new edition of Dr. Kirk's acclaimed literary biography, Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century is being published in July 2008 by ISI Books.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition. Click on the icon in the upper right corner of the video to see more episodes in this series or check out our YouTube page.
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