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.
Why, and How, to Live
Jeffrey Folks reviews Leon Kass’s Leading a Worthy Life.
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
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
