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.
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.
Sources for Rebuilding
Anthony M. Barr looks at a few other voices that could contribute to the conversation started by Yuval Levin’s A Time to Build.
The Winter Sportsmen-Soldiers
Bill Meehan reviews a real-life Alpine adventure from World War II.
The Elon Musk of Botany Bay?
Karl C. Schaffenburg reviews an uneven biography of the great botanist Joseph Banks.
Enlightening the Masses
Luke Nicastro reviews a book that does not quite explain the failure of the Enlightenment.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
