The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Placing Chaucer
Carl Rollyson welcomes Marion Turner’s innovative new biography of Chaucer and the spaces he inhabited.
A Life in Liberal Internationalism
Francis P. Sempa reviews a biography of the Wilsonian diplomat Richard Holbrooke.
The Revolution is Still Permanent
Micah Meadowcroft reviews a book that argues implicitly that politics and religion can never truly be separated.
John Lukacs: Reactionary, Not Conservative
John P. McCarthy remembers his friend John Lukacs.
John Milton, Latin Love Poet
Patrick Callahan welcomes A. M. Juster’s new translation of Milton’s Book of Elegies.
Finding Wisdom at Dusk
Scott Beauchamp reviews Roberto Calasso’s diagnosis of the hidden split between power and meaning in our technocratic age.
Americans’ Dignity, and the Nation’s Shame
Addison Del Mastro reviews an important book that may help elites better imagine the lives of those other Americans.
Fragments of Shattered Empire
Kevin J. McNamara reviews a memoir from a journalist who helps brings back to life the shattered kingdoms of Central Europe.
More to Say on Slavery and the Constitution
Jason Ross looks at a new book that questions accepted history on the slavery debates at the 1787 Federal Convention.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.