The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Join friends of the Bookman in New York City on December 8 for the Gerald 2025 Russello Memorial Lecture.
An Invaluable Bit of Aquinas
Casey Chalk looks at new book on Aquinas’s thought that can illuminate some contemporary debates.
What We’re Reading, Summer 2019
A baker’s dozen of Bookman contributors and friends share their summer reading plans.
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 Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
