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 Jeffersonian Judge
John Grove reviews David Johnson’s Irreconcilable Founders
Beyond Black and White
James E. Hartley reviews Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground.
The Last Honest Pagan
Scott Beauchamp reviews Daniel Oppenheimer’s Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art.
Geopolitics in a Godless Age
John Ehrett reviews William Bain’s Political Theology of International Order.
Jeanne Demessieux: A Great Organist’s Centenary
Robert James Stove celebrates a collection of the music of Jeanne Demessieux.
Can Progressivism Be Reversed?
John C. Chalberg reviews America Transformed by Ronald J. Pestritto.
Death and the Catholic Imagination
Jeffrey Wald reviews Thirst by A. G. Mojtabai.
A Puzzle-Box Book
Eve Tushnet reviews Mariam Petrosyan’s The Gray House.
Eric Rohmer, Novelist
Trevor C. Merrill looks at filmmaker Eric Rohmer’s two literary works.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.