The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Breaking the Leaf-Mould
John Tuttle reviews Holly Ordway’s Tolkien’s Modern Reading.

Discerning the Real
John Ehrett reviews D. C. Schindler’s The Politics of the Real.

Ireland Since the Famine: An Appreciation
John P. Rossi revisits F.S.L. Lyons’s Ireland Since the Famine after 50 years.

Of Prophets and Presidents
John Bicknell reviews Spencer McBride’s Joseph Smith for President.

Wilson’s (Self) Determination
Kevin J. McNamara reviews Larry Wolff’s Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe.

The Enduring Mystery of War
Michael J. Ard reviews Margaret MacMillan’s War.

The Economics of Everywhere and Nowhere
Henry George reviews Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment.

Ignorant Armies
Michial Farmer reviews Deborah Stone’s Counting.

Counter-Tradition of the American Imagination
J. L. Wall reviews Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler by William Merrill Decker.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.