The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Humanism, Reform, Heresy
Chris Butynskyi reviews a book on the people whose opposition shaped John Calvin.
Weaponized Christianity
Grant Havers reviews Daniel Mahoney’s finally hopeful analysis of the roots of modern progressive ideology.
Narrating the Future
Carl Lawrence Paulus reviews a history of the national grand narratives during a period of great change, the years leading up to the Civil War.
Writing from the Edge of the Middle
Veery Huleatt reviews a strong collection of essays on the Midwest and the consequences of losing our narrative.
Two Tolkiens on View
Alexi Sargeant reviews the exhibit Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth, now at the Morgan Library in New York through May.
Why Make Men Pigs
Colleen Curran reviews Madeline Miller’s move from myth to novel as she works with a character from the Odyssey.
A Conflicted Idea of America
Craig Bruce Smith reviews Jill Lepore’s treatment of America’s founding eras in the first of four pieces on These Truths.
What Hath Lepore Wrought
Daniel N. Gullotta assesses Jill Lepore’s treatment of America’s antebellum and Civil War eras.
Citizenship and the Fitful History of the American Way
Robert Greene II reviews the third part of Jill Lepore’s new history, covering the period from Reconstruction through World War II.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.