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.
Register for this free webinar here.
On the Relationship between Psychology and Theology
Adam J. DeVille looks at the correspondence of Jung and Keller and a biography of Rollo May.
A Postmodern Prophet?
Nate Hochman reviews Marc Champagne’s study of the ideas of Jordan Peterson.
The Sinai Revolution and American Ordered Liberty
Casey Chalk reviews Os Guinness’s Magna Carta of Humanity.
The Girl of Slender Meanings
Asher Gelzer-Govatos reviews James Bailey’s Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction.
Women’s Good News
Annmarie McLaughlin reviews Shannon Bream’s The Women of the Bible Speak.
Town Politics
Matthew Robare reviews Charles Marohn’s Strong Towns.
Magpies, Verbal Jugglers, and True Liberty
Jared Zimmerer returns to the Metalogicon of John of Salisbury for a defense of the liberal arts.
Breaking the Crockery
Andrew Bacevich reviews The Free World by Louis Menand.
Breaking the Leaf-Mould
John Tuttle reviews Holly Ordway’s Tolkien’s Modern Reading.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
