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.
 
														England’s Real-Time Wendell Berry
Robert Grano reviews At the Field’s Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside.
 
														For Faith, not Power
Fitzroy Morrissey reviews Gerges’s Making the Arab World.
 
														Failures of Interpretation
Gregory Castle reviews Michael Fried’s What Was Literary Impressionism?
 
														Rethinking Association
Bruce Frohnen reviews Luke Sheahan’s Why Associations Matter
 
														A Mind-Body Problem in Chinese Philosophy?
Jason Morgan welcomes Edward Slingerland’s Mind and Body in Early China.
 
														The Sources of Russian Aggression
Sumantra Maitra reviews two books on Russia from Stent and Åslund.
 
														Tories and True Believers
Derek Turner reviews Ed West’s Small Men on the Wrong Side of History.
 
														A Paean to Craftsmanship
J. L. Wall welcomes A. E. Stallings’s new translation of Hesiod’s Works and Days.
 
														From Caliphate to Nation States
Garrett Robinson reviews Louër’s political history, Sunni and Shi’a.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
 
				 
			         
											