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.
Psychedelic Utopia
Scott Beauchamp reviews T. C. Boyle’s newest novel on a utopian in-group.
The Six Communal Institutions and the Modern Economy
Gerard T. Mundy looks at what James Bloodworth’s Hired reveals about the decline of Western culture’s mediating institutions.
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.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
