The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
On Happiness as Harmony
Pedro Blas González reflects on the vast differences between happiness as felt and happiness as explained.
Surviving the Robot-Barons
Jacob Bruggeman reviews Jay W. Richards’s book on the not-so-apocalyptic future of American employment.
Poetry, Oblivion, and God
Micah Mattix reviews Christian Wiman’s new book on faith and poetry.
A Compelling and Contradictory Prophet
Annelisa J. Purdie welcomes a major new biography of Frederick Douglass.
Thought Is a Labyrinth
Phil Christman welcomes the informative literary correspondence between Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner.
Classical (and Faux) Glories of New York
John Byron Kuhner welcomes a personable new book on the many Classical influences in New York City.
Calhoun, Compromise, and Consequence
Carl Rollyson reviews a new book on the convictions, conflicts, and compromises of three leaders who shaped antebellum America.
Citizens of the World
Casey Chalk argues that a new generation of globetrotting American idealists should re-read The Sand Pebbles.
The Revolution That Did Not End in Blood
JP O’Malley interviews historian Antonia Fraser about her recent book on Catholic emancipation in the UK.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.