The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
A Hope Beyond Our Sight
Ben Reinhard reviews The Fall of Gondolin, the last Christopher Tolkien-edited edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Great Tales.
For Liberty or Tyranny?
Addison Del Mastro reviews the new Brookhiser biography of Chief Justice John Marshall.
Best of Bacevich
Mark G. Brennan finds a few surprises in a new collection by Andrew Bacevich.
Create Your Own Tradition?
Casey Chalk reviews Justin Earley’s book rediscovering classic Christian habits for our distracted and disconnected age.
A Great Yarn
Matthew Hennessey reviews the new memoir from Muslim turned Catholic Sohrab Ahmari.
Tension and Freedom for Catholics in Britain
William Anthony Hay reviews Antonia Fraser’s The King and the Catholics.
On Fascists and Anti-Fascists in Spain
Alberto M. Fernandez looks at lessons for our era of political reeducation from a biography of Jose Enrique Varela, Franco’s “antifascist general.”
Catholics and America: A Question of Loyalty
Richard Reinsch looks at the role of Catholics in America in a review of a new collection of the writings of Orestes Brownson.
A Slight and Dismal Cachet
Eve Tushnet reviews a new biography of that macabre and melancholy … Midwesterner, Edward Gorey.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.