The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

A Cautionary Tale for Our Loveless World
Auguste Meyrat revisits Madame Bovary as a novel for our time.

A Splendid War Companion
John P. Rossi reviews Alan Allport’s Britain at Bay.

Marriage Can Change Everything
J. L. Wall reviews Marilynne Robinson’s Jack.

Worth a Second Reading
John C. Chalberg welcomes a Father Schall essay collection.

Retail Heaven
Eve Tushnet reviews Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman.

America’s Angriest Writer
Margot Enns reviews William Souder’s biography of John Steinbeck.

The Lakota: A Human Story
Santi Ruiz welcomes Lakota America by Pekka Hämäläinen.

The Soul of a Free Man
Kyle Sammin reviews Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh.

The Last Plantagenet
Garrett Robinson reviews Nicola Tallis’s Uncrowned Queen on Margaret Beaufort.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.