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 Renaissance Reimagined
Clayton Trutor reviews Catherine Fletcher’s The Beauty and the Terror.
 
														The Unfashionable Statesmanship of John Courtney Murray
Hunter Baker joins the Bookman symposium, “Murray’s We Hold These Truths: 1960 and Today”
 
														A Reminder of Reality in an Ideological Age
Bruce P. Frohnen joins the Bookman symposium, “Murray’s We Hold These Truths: 1960 and Today”
 
														This Nation Under God
Richard M. Reinsch II joins the Bookman symposium, “Murray’s We Hold These Truths: 1960 and Today”
 
														Murray, Sixty Years On
William Gould joins the Bookman symposium, “Murray’s We Hold These Truths: 1960 and Today”
 
														Murray and 21st-Century Challenges
Mary C. Segers joins the Bookman symposium, “Murray’s We Hold These Truths: 1960 and Today”
 
														Maoism Exported
Thomas Albert Howard Reviews Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History
 
														The Towns Brexit Forgets
Gerard T. Mundy reviews David Skelton’s Little Platoons.
 
														Everyone Worships
Scott D. Moringiello reviews Tara Isabella Burton’s Strange Rites.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
 
				 
			         
											