The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Support the University Bookman during our annual Kirktober Fundraiser, and receive an audio copy of Kirk’s short story, What Shadows We Pursue.
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.
Register for this free webinar here.
Desire Is the Human Condition
Thomas J. Bevan reviews Luke Burgis’s Wanting.
Wild, and the Problem of Evil
Christopher Landrum reviews the novel All Things Left Wild by James Wade.
‘God, If There Was a God’
Joshua Hren reviews Phil Klay’s novel, Missionaries.
A People’s History of Philadelphia
Addison Del Mastro reviews Dallett Hemphill’s Philadelphia Stories.
The Place of Punctuation in Literary Art
Oliver Spivey reviews Lee Clark Mitchell’s Mark My Words.
An Education for the Future
John C. Pinheiro reviews André Gushurst-Moore’s Glory in All Things
Does Junior Know Best?
Esther O’Reilly reviews The Handsome Little Cygnet by Matthew Mehan.
Books in Little: A Political Theodicy
Glenn Moots reviews Eric Nelson’s Theology of Liberalism.
Thoughtless Mechanism
Nicholas Meverel reviews Marcus and Davis’s Rebooting AI.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
