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.
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The Politics of Scale
Simon P. Kennedy reviews Ferenc Hörcher’s Political Philosophy of the European City.
Recovering the Politics of Prudence
Karl Gustel Wärnberg reviews Ferenc Hörcher’s Political Philosophy of Conservatism.
Lessons from Toyland: A History of Adventure
E. Wesley Reynolds III offers an imaginative Christmastide reflection (Part 3 of 3).
Lessons from Toyland: A History of Adventure
E. Wesley Reynolds III offers an imaginative Christmastide reflection (Part 2 of 3).
Lessons from Toyland: A History of Adventure
E. Wesley Reynolds III offers an imaginative Christmastide reflection (Part 1 of 3).
Feminism Inside Out
Carl Rollyson reviews Gilbert and Gubar’s Still Mad
The Enduring Solzhenitsyn
Jeremy Kee reviews the second book of Solzhenitsyn’s literary autobiography.
Appropriating the Goods of Reactionary Conservatism
Casey Chalk reviews Michael Warren Davis’s The Reactionary Mind.
A. J. P. Taylor’s History of England
John Rossi looks back at the enduring character of A. J. P. Taylor’s English History
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.