My Early Life: A Roving Commission By Winston S. Churchill. Edited by James W. Muller. St. Augustine’s Press, 1930/2025. Hardcover, 608 pages, $50. Reviewed by Frank A. von Hippel. Winston Churchill was a prolific and ambitious writer, for which he was...
By Michael Lucchese. A Russell Kirk Center Special Series Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, The University Bookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the...
On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776 By Russell Kirk. Edited by Michael Lucchese. Creed & Culture, 2026. Hardcover, 234 pages, $28. Reviewed by Wilfred McClay. Like any great and influential writer, Russell Kirk has often suffered from being misread,...
Dragons: A Roman Requiem By Joseph Carola, S.J. Sophia Institute Press, 2026. Paperback, 256 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O. For much of the nineteenth century, Rome was a city attempting to recover from revolution and war. The...
The Screen and the Mirror: What Movies Show Us About Ourselves, the World, and God By Gina Dalfonzo. Cascade Books, 2026. Paperback, 164 pages, $23. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. Like reading classic literature, viewing and studying classic film is a means of examining...
Seductive AI By Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Encounter Books, 2026. Paperback, 48 pages, $9.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In this brief “broadside,” Glenn Harlan Reynolds discusses the potential effects, for both good and ill, of artificial intelligence. Reynolds begins...
Letters of a Literary Legend
Oliver Spivey on "The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom" Edited by Heather Cass White. @yalepress
