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.
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 Surprise of Order
John Tuttle reviews John-Mark Miravalle’s Beauty.
The World the Habsburgs Built
Avi Woolf reviews The Habsburgs, by Martin Rady.
Academe’s Poisoned Groves
Lee Oser reviews John Ellis’s The Breakdown of Higher Education.
Ishmael’s Real Name Was Jonah
Will Hoyt offers a reassessment of Herman Melville’s later works.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
