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 Superhero and the City
Ryan Shinkel looks at a book that pits superheroes against each other in a contest of worldviews.
Scruton, Defender of the Past
Jeffrey Folks remembers Roger Scruton as an astute and courageous conservative intellectual.
Effing the Ineffable
Robert Grant Price reviews Roger Scruton’s collection, Music as Art.
Champagne Flute with an Iron Spine
Eve Tushnet traces five reactionary novels from the last century that tracked the slow-motion apocalypse ending the premodern era.
Constitutional Arguments, Constitutional Stories
The Bookman interviews Boston College professor Ken I. Kersch about his recent book on the history of the family of stories that conservatives tell about the Constitution.
Making a Home Among Monsters and Martians
Jacob A. Bruggeman reviews a book on legends of the American Midwest.
Metaphysics for a Broken Western World
Gerard T. Mundy reviews a book that revisits the metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Faith and Works and the Novel
Trevor C. Merrill reviews Joseph Bottom’s history and assessment of the novel as a literary genre.
Scientism Is Not Science
Pedro Blas González looks at the ways scientism can miss and misdirect our existential engagement with reality.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
