The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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.
An Artist in History
James Baresel reviews a life of early American painter John Singleton Copley.
Rethinking Hollywood History
Titus Techera reviews the new Coen Brothers anthology that works over the Western.
At the Suffrage of the State
Bruce Frohnen reviews Philip Hamburger’s new book on American fear of authority and the neutering of nonprofits.
Portrait of a Genius
Frank Freeman finds compelling reading the new and more accessible abridged edition of Portraits of Wittgenstein.
After the Guns Fall Silent
Daniel James Sundahl reviews a history of the American Battle Monuments Commission first established at the end of World War I.
Sour ’68
Joseph Bottum and Justin L. Blessinger help us put 2018 into perspective with a look back on the turmoil of 1968, when victory began wearing the death mask of defeat.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.