The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Skewering the Revolutionary Consciousness
Katya Sedgwick looks back at Bulgakov’s novella, Heart of a Dog.

The Enlightenment’s Critics
David Coates reviews the collection Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism.

A Treatise for Counterrevolutionaries
Alberto M. Fernandez introduces readers to Ramiro de Maeztu’s In Defense of Hispanism.

Caesar Still Lives
Eric Hutchinson reads Gibbon along with … Iggy Pop?

The Humaneness of the Historical Mind
Luke C. Sheahan welcomes Garrison and Holston’s new essay collection, The Historical Mind.

De Gaulle’s Ambition for France
Owen Edwards reviews Julian Jackson’s new biography of Charles de Gaulle.

Progressing to Nowhere?
John C. Chalberg welcomes Bradley Wilson’s Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea

Translating Great Books
James Davenport reviews The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns by Christopher Butynskyi.

Lines of Descent
Jeremy Seaton discusses the new edition of Kirk’s Old House of Fear.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.