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.
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.
From New York to Chartres with La Farge
Stephen Schmalhofer looks at the life and connections of the Catholic artist John La Farge, the friend and tutor of the historian Henry Adams.
More Than Mildly Amusing
Elizabeth Bittner welcomes Mr. Mehan’s entertaining—and substantive—animal alphabet.
What Makes the Midwest Midwestern?
Jonathan Kasparek reviews a new collection on the cultural history of the Midwest.
Fear Your Toaster
Michael J. Ard reviews a disturbing book on the vulnerabilities of our Internet-connected lives.
Ideology Unbounded in San Francisco
Matthew Stokes reviews Daniel J. Flynn’s revealing history of the ideological and other connections between Jim Jones and Harvey Milk.
The Rise of Black Intellectual History
Chidike Okeem reviews a collection on the black intellectual tradition.
Pondering the Defeatists
Richard Cocks reviews a new edition of Colin Wilson’s Age of Defeat and explores the ongoing production line of nihilistic fiction.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
