The University Bookman
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.
‘All of time is cut in two’
Midge Goldberg welcomes a new collection of grief-tinged poems by Rhina P. Espaillat.
An Elegy for Place and Time
Jacob Bruggeman reviews Jesse Donaldson’s reflections on his longing for place in our age of isolation.
Natural Law in One Stop
W. Bradford Littlejohn recommends a surprising first-time translation of the early Danish Protestant writer Niels Hemmingsen.
Tales of Science and Fiction
Thomas F. Bertonneau welcomes Alec Nevala-Lee’s group biography of leading figures in the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
Reasonable Faith, Faithful Reasonableness
Jason Jewell reviews Samuel Gregg’s assessment of the place of reason and faith in making—and maintaining—Western Civilization.
The Great and Tolerable Empire
James Baresel reviews Jeremy Black’s new history—and defense—of the British Empire.
Scalia’s Applied Faith
Jeffrey Folks welcomes a collection of Antonin Scalia’s writings on faith.
Ancestry, Time, and the Intimacy of Being
Pedro Blas González reflects on the postmodern assaults on the forces that connect us to our past and enable us to make sense of our present and future.
The Education of Clarence Thomas
Peter Wood welcomes Myron Magnet’s account of the formation of the thinking of Justice Clarence Thomas.
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.
