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.
														Saint Louis and the Convert Immigrants
James Baresel welcomes William Chester Jordan’s new history of Louis IX and his encouragement of Muslim conversion.
														The Good People
A Kirkian short story by Susannah Black.
														A More Hallowed Society
Anthony M. Barr welcomes a new translation of Plutarch’s Lives.
														What Does Athens Have to Do with America?
Grant Havers reviews a book critiquing conservative readings of the Greek tradition.
														Getting Out of the Hole
James Davenport welcomes James K. A. Smith’s new book on Augustine’s refugee spirituality.
														When Left and Right Agree
Gerard T. Mundy reviews a book from the center-left that buttresses conservative concerns with communities, social order, and the American economy.
														Prin’s Original Fictions
Joshua Hren reviews an Odyssean satirical novel.
														Musket Before the Ax: Howells and Ohio
Jacob A. Bruggeman reviews a new edition of an 1897 history of Ohio from “the dean of American literature.”
														Passing through the Gathering Dusk
James E. Person Jr. reflects on the centennial of Sherwood Anderson’s evocative novel, Winesburg, Ohio.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
