England’s Real-Time Wendell Berry
At the Field’s Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside By Richard Hawking. The Crowood Press, 2019. Hardcover, 222 pages, $45. Reviewed by Robert Grano The name Adrian Bell will be unfamiliar to the great majority of American readers, and even in his native...
It Will Mean What the Words Say!
The Essential Works of Thomas More Ed. by Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith. Yale University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 1520 pages, $100. Reviewed by Kenneth Craycraft Three scenes from A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s play about the elevation and martyrdom of...
The Elon Musk of Botany Bay?
The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World By Toby Musgrave. Yale University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 357 pp., $35. Reviewed by Karl C. Schaffenburg In current usage “multifarious” refers to a thing that demonstrates...
The Nation’s First Architect
Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Jean H. Baker. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 304 pages, $35. Reviewed by Addison Del Mastro Benjamin Henry Latrobe is, in two ways, not Pierre L’Enfant—he was not, despite his surname, French; and he...
Happy Constitution Day! This week the Bookman celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Russell Kirk's The Roots of American Order with a symposium on the book. The essays include reflections on our written and unwritten constitution. (1/3) https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/kirks-constitution-from-the-roots-to-the-end-of-american-order/
Who are the women quietly defying the birth dearth? Join the Book Gallery on 9/23 with @ubookman editor @lsheahan and @CRPakaluk discussing her latest book, "Hannah's Children" to find out more. Registration is open here: