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.
Killing the Boomers
Anthony Barr reviews Helen Andrews’s Boomers.
The Fruits of Empire
Luke Nicastro reviews Owen White’s The Blood of the Colony.
Craftsmanship as Social and Political Endeavor
Clayton Trutor welcomes Glenn Adamson’s Craft.
Robert Lowell’s Selfish Determination
Eugene Schlanger reviews Robert Lowell’s Dolphin and Dolphin Letters.
After Such Knowledge
Carl E. Rollyson reviews Jerome Charyn’s biographical novel Sargeant Salinger.
Everything Stays the Same
Albert Wald reviews Alex Christofi’s Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life.
The Literature of Wisdom and Enjoyment
Daniel Buck reviews Karen Swallow Prior’s On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books.
James Burnham: Marxist, 1933–1940
Francis P. Sempa looks at James Burnham’s Marxist period for themes that shaped The Managerial Revolution and The Machiavellians.
The Heart of Progress
Luma Simms reviews Matthew Slaboch’s Road to Nowhere.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
