The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

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 Third Tolkien on View
Michael Toscano writes on another formative influence behind J. R. R. Tolkien—his mother.

Members of the Club
Chuck Chalberg reviews a book on the Literary Club of Samuel Johnson.

An Invaluable Bit of Aquinas
Casey Chalk looks at new book on Aquinas’s thought that can illuminate some contemporary debates.

What We’re Reading, Summer 2019
A baker’s dozen of Bookman contributors and friends share their summer reading plans.

A Prophet of Conservative Realism
Sumantra Maitra reviews Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools.

The Small and the Human, and ‘Free America’
Allan C. Carlson offers an excerpt from his forthcoming book about the American agrarian-distributist magazine, Free America, which published from 1937–1947.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.