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.
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.
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 Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
