The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Support the University Bookman during our annual Kirktober Fundraiser, and receive an audio copy of Kirk’s short story, What Shadows We Pursue.
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.
Niebuhr on the Crisis of Our Civilization
Francis P. Sempa finds that Reinhold Niebuhr has guidance for our political-spiritual crisis.
A Syrian Islamist Reads Arabic Literature for the First Time
Sam Sweeney reads Kahlil Gibran along with a recently captured Syrian Islamist.
Feudalism Without a Soul
Casey Chalk reviews Joel Kotkin’s The Coming of Neo-Feudalism.
Quasi-Religious Parenting
Melissa Langsam Braunstein reviews Christian Smith’s Religious Parenting.
The Never-Ending Threat of Utopia
Robert Grant Price reviews Kotkin’s The Coming of Neo-Feudalism.
The President’s Hidden Hand
Michael J. Ard reviews Annie Jacobsen’s Surprise, Kill, Vanish.
An Ambitious Forgotten President
Brian Cervantez reviews President Without a Party, Christopher Leahy’s new biography of John Tyler.
Beha’s Capacity for God: Sophie Wilder Revisited
Joshua Hren revisits Christopher Beha’s first novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder.
A Plutarchian Life of Brown and Lincoln
Carl Rollyson reviews H. W. Brands’s The Zealot and the Emancipator.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
