The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

The Cost of a Global Revolution
Casey Chalk reviews Alexander Mikaberidze’s new history of The Napoleonic Wars.

Can Whimsy Save the Small-Town Novel?
Matt Miller reviews Virgil Wander, the new novel by Lief Enger.

Voting the Bible
Jason Jewell reviews Tremper Longman’s The Bible and the Ballot.

From Shakespeare to Second Life
Daniel Buck argues that conservatives should treat games like BioShock more like literature.

Succession and the Anarchy
Timothy D. Lusch reviews Catherine Hanley’s Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior.

Churchill’s Summer of Destiny
John P. Rossi looks back at four key speeches of Winston Churchill in the summer of 1940.
Beyond Cancel Culture
Michial Farmer looks at O’Connor, Updike, and the Literature of Self-Recrimination

Burke’s Mannered Economics
John Grove reviews Gregory Collins’s Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy

How the Vikings Saw Themselves
Clayton Trutor welcomes Neil Price’s Children of Ash and Elm
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.