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.
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
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 Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
