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.
														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.
														Taking Serious Poetry Seriously
J. L. Wall welcomes a book on theological work done through the poetry of Eliot, Jones, and Auden.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
