The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Accountancy and Authority
Eve Tushnet returns to David Foster Wallace’s Pale King.

Murray’s Lyric Lament
Henry George rereads Douglas Murray’s Strange Death of Europe.

It Will Mean What the Words Say!
Kenneth Craycraft welcomes the new single-volume edition of the works of St. Thomas More.

Why We’re All Playing Identity Politics
Austin Coffey reviews Ezra Klein’s explanation of contemporary polarization.

Varieties of the British Right
James Baresel reviews a book on schools of inter-war British conservative thought.

Dorothy L. Sayers’s Tough Love
Emina Melonic welcomes a bracing anthology of the writing of Dorothy L. Sayers.

The Arrogance of Blueprints
A conversation with Amity Shlaes on cycles of amnesia and the effects of arrogance revealed in her critical new economic history of the 1960s.

Depths of Hell, Heights of English
Casey Chalk welcomes a new reader’s guide to Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Timing Devices
Daniel James Sundahl reviews a new collection of poems from Paul Mariani that help us connect our ordinary time with the sacred.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.