The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Resurrecting John Keats
“Lucasta Miller, in her brilliant new book on Keats, writes, ‘To read him is to participate in an invisible web that has connected human beings over millennia via the literary imagination.'”
Partisan Citizens
“Citizenship demands open-minded discourse among persons from different backgrounds and with varying ideas in the interest of forming and preserving a consensus concerning the most advisable form of government.”
Navigating the “In Between” of Belief
“…Desmond offers many incisive and rich critiques of an atheistic contemporary world as well as of static and insufficient presentations of religious belief, all from within his particular conceptual framework.”
Richard Weaver Explained Our Cultural Predicament Over 70 Years Ago
“The past shows unvaryingly that when a people’s freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for. That is the dire peril in the present trend toward statism.” – Richard Weaver
The Traditions That Gave Us Homer
“Parry… ultimately became the most influential Classical—and perhaps literary—scholar of the twentieth-century precisely because he was able to side-step the Homeric Question altogether.”
Whose Truth? Whose Power?
“David Lowenthal finds something new to say about Orwell,,,”
Two Tales of Watergate
“To commemorate the fifty year mark we now have not one, but two, new books to add to the ever-mounting bibliography of Watergate-related tomes.”
These Roman Things
“As Jones struggled with his ‘technolatrous’ age, he took ancient Rome as a lodestar for navigating ‘this distressful epoch.'”
All That’s Left is This Foundation Stone
“…these poems provoke us to return and reclaim our prodigal inheritance.”
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.