The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Passing through the Gathering Dusk
James E. Person Jr. reflects on the centennial of Sherwood Anderson’s evocative novel, Winesburg, Ohio.

Christ in the Outback
Karl Schmude reviews an Austrialian journalist’s book on Christianity in public life and its lessons for Christians in becoming a self-confident minority.

Leviathan at Bay, at Last?
Stephen B. Presser welcomes a book with guidance on rolling back the Administrative State.

Federalism Against the Slave Power
Carl Lawrence Paulus looks at lessons for today from a new history of abolition as an organized movement of political protest.

Lincoln, Burke, and the Politics of Prudence
Kyle Sammin reviews a book that makes a case for a common thread between Burke and Lincoln.

Sacrificial Crisis
Trevor C. Merrill reviews the new play from Will Arbery.

‘Out of the Silent Planet’ and a New Era of Science Fiction
John Tuttle discusses the first of C. S. Lewis’s science fiction novels in its publishing context.

The Age of Addiction
Gerald J. Russello reviews a book on the cultivation of consumer desire and its discontents.

Fortunate Naivety
Matthew Loftus looks at a new biography of the sustainable radical, Jean Vanier.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.