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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Watch James Panero of the New Criterion discuss “The Urbanity of Russell Kirk” at the 2025 Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture.
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.
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 Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition. Click on the icon in the upper right corner of the video to see more episodes in this series or check out our YouTube page.
