The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

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.

How to Read the News and Stay Happy
Casey Chalk welcomes Jeffrey Bilbro’s Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.