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.
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														The Power Has Flowed Away
Zak Slayback reviews Houellebecq’s Serotonin.
 
														Hope for a Rebirth of Common Sense in the Academy?
Stephen B. Presser welcomes Trepanier & Havers’s Walk Away.
 
														Lessons from a Forgotten Papacy
David G. Bonagura, Jr. reviews Christian Browne’s Pearl of Great Price on Pope Pius VI
 
														The Substance of Style
Cory L. Andrews reviews Farnsworth’s Classical English Style.
 
														Defending the Right and the Good
Historian George H. Nash looks back at the history of Russell Kirk’s founding of The University Bookman.
 
														The Quest for Neutral Ground
Allen Mendenhall reviews The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal.
 
														Competition Is Beautiful
Ryan Shinkel reviews The Myth of Capitalism.
 
														Toward a Renewal of Europe
Scott B. Nelson reviews Renovatio Europae: For a Hesperialist Renewal of Europe.
 
														James Burnham and the Asia-Pacific: 1941–1978
Francis P. Sempa surveys the wisdom in the Asia-Pacific focused writings of James Burnham.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
 
				 
			         
											