The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Reclaiming a Place for Conversation
Anthony M. Barr reviews Senator Ben Sasse’s book on fault lines in American civil society.
On the Endlessness of the World Story
Father Schall considers beginnings and endings, names and times, in reflecting on a note from the end of Tolkien’s essay, “On Fairy-stories.”
Lingis Among the Nightingales
Michael Shindler reviews Alphonso Lingis’s quirky reflections on the process of dying.
An Unflinching Theological Aesthetic
Steven Knepper reviews a wide-ranging new book of poems from James Matthew Wilson.
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.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.