The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Like a Jazz Score: The Sense for Life
Pedro Blas González reflects on life and jazz in the postmodern world.
Nothing More to Prove
Carl Rollyson reviews the second volume of Zachary Leader’s biography of Saul Bellow.
Liturgies Real and Imagined
Trevor C. Merrill reviews a memoir and a novel from the German Catholic writer Martin Mosebach.
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.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.