The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Fault Lines in American Identity
Harrison F. Dietzman reviews a book on what popular culture reveals of thin line between a good American and a good criminal.

Baseball, Out of Time?
Caden McCann reviews Susan Jacoby’s Why Baseball Matters.

The Loyalist Arguments
William Anthony Hay welcomes a fresh assessment of the arguments and methods of Loyalist clergy in the American Revolutionary era.

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.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.