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.
A Refreshed and Refreshing Federalist
Michael Federici welcomes Reflection and Choice, the new Federalist collection from Gregg and Coleman.
Naive Virtue?
Casey Chalk reviews Thomas Ricks’s First Principles.
A Life for the Longfellow Renaissance
William F. Meehan III welcomes Nicholas Basbanes’s new Longfellow biography.
More than an Education
Clayton Trutor reviews David Brown’s new biography of Henry Adams.
Hemingway Finds His Voice
Frank Freeman reviews the new Library of America edition of the early Hemingway.
Woodward, Reconstruction, and Their Legacy
Stephen B. Presser reviews The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward.
Finding a Different Self
Lance Kinzer reviews Carl Trueman’s Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
The Curse of Knowledge
Christine Norvell reviews the novel A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe.
Tolkien’s Yuletide Fiction
John Tuttle revisits Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
