The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

A Slight and Dismal Cachet
Eve Tushnet reviews a new biography of that macabre and melancholy … Midwesterner, Edward Gorey.

A New Dracula
Matthew Robare reviews a new vampire novel from Eleanor Bourg Nicholson that is attuned to the Catholic imagination.

Originalism and the Individual Jurist
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall draws on T. S. Eliot as he reflects on what makes a good jurist in this recent keynote address.

The Habit of Being a Catholic Writer
Emina Melonic welcomes a new volume of letters between Flannery O’Connor and Caroline Gordon.

All the History That Fits a Narrative
Francis P. Sempa reviews an overly self-important book about the Helsinki Accords.

A District in Play
Derek Turner welcomes Dan Cruickshank’s architectural history of London’s Spitalfields, the “off-center epitome of England.”

The Doctor as Moralist
Scott Beauchamp reviews a collection of the short stories of psychiatrist and critic Theodore Dalrymple.

The Doctor as Amoralist
Karl C. Schaffenburg reviews an informative but unreflective history of surgical advances.

Dropouts from a Mercenary Society
Mary Reichardt welcomes new editions of two novels by the Catholic writer Myles Connolly.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.