The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Homesick for Eternity
Scott Beauchamp reviews a new collection of the writings of the Decadent-Era poet Lionel Johnson.

The Work of Local Culture
Richard M. Gamble welcomes McAllister and Frohnen’s hopeful Coming Home.

From the Ground Up
Timothy D. Lusch reviews a new contribution to the toolkit for American cultural restoration.

Letting Writers Do the Talking
Elizabeth Bittner reviews Allen Mendenhall’s collection of interviews with writers in the South.

‘All of time is cut in two’
Midge Goldberg welcomes a new collection of grief-tinged poems by Rhina P. Espaillat.

An Elegy for Place and Time
Jacob Bruggeman reviews Jesse Donaldson’s reflections on his longing for place in our age of isolation.

Natural Law in One Stop
W. Bradford Littlejohn recommends a surprising first-time translation of the early Danish Protestant writer Niels Hemmingsen.

Tales of Science and Fiction
Thomas F. Bertonneau welcomes Alec Nevala-Lee’s group biography of leading figures in the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

Reasonable Faith, Faithful Reasonableness
Jason Jewell reviews Samuel Gregg’s assessment of the place of reason and faith in making—and maintaining—Western Civilization.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.