The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Counter-Tradition of the American Imagination
J. L. Wall reviews Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler by William Merrill Decker.
Schlumping toward Altenburg
Michael Shindler reflects on Hans Herbert Grimm and the neglected World War I novel Schlump.
Rocket Age Drama
Robert Huddleston reviews Robert Harris’s V2: A Novel of World War II.
Imagined Americas
John G. Grove praises Samuel Goldman’s After Nationalism.
Facing the Past
Miles Smith IV reviews Robert Elder’sCalhoun: American Heretic.
Nerve Plasm Palpitations?
Daniel James Sundahl reviews Patricia S. Churchland’s Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition.
Free Ride
Addison Del Mastro reviews Matthew Crawford’s Why We Drive.
Aristotle’s Timely Guide to Human Happiness
Auguste Meyrat finds in Aristotle’s Ethics a necessary resource our lonely era.
Is the Religious Right Really so Incomprehensible?
James E. Hartley is not impressed with Benjamin Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.