Editorial 1 January 2013
- Editor’s Note: Looking Forward and Back
Review 30 December 2012
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A Player Piano for the Twenty-First Century - Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Dial Press 1999 [1952] Paper, 352 pages, $15.
On Essays and Letters 23 December 2012
Below is a bonus column from Father Schall. You can also peruse his other online articles in this series here.
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On Quotations - Father Schall reflects on the art of the quotation: We usually do not quote just to be quoting.
Review 16 December 2012
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Conversation in Collapse - The Conversation, Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. American Zoetrope / Paramount, 1974. 113 minutes.
On Essays and Letters 16 December 2012
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The Real Charm of Oxford - Father Schall reflects on letters of the English Dominican Bede Jarrett.
Essay 9 December 2012
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The State of American Liberal Education These Days - Peter Augustine Lawler says that the requirements of being middle class—of living in a meritocracy based on productivity—gradually destroys liberal education in America, but two countercultures continue to preserve serious education that teaches people to live well.
Essay 9 December 2012
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Ten Conservative Books Revisited - In 1986, Russell Kirk gave a lecture on Ten Conservative Books. Bookman editor Gerald Russello returns to the theme 25 years on with another ten recommendations.
Interview 2 December 2012
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Having It Both Ways
an interview by - Novelist and poet James Lasdun speaks with the Bookman about why he feels violence is an important theme to be explored in poetry, how Chekhov modernized him as a writer, and why an industrial wasteland in New Jersey inspired the milieu for one of his novels.
Review 2 December 2012
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Back to the Sources, Almost - Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir by David Grene. University of Chicago Press, 2006, cloth, 184 pages, $35.
Interview 25 November 2012
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A Road Not Taken
an interview by - In the aftermath of the 2012 election, the Bookman interviews Michael Brendan Dougherty, national correspondent for The American Conservative, on the thinking and likely influence of Patrick J. Buchanan and his New Majority—and the prospects for Republicans to interrupt current trends by reaching out to African-Americans and urban voters.
Best of the Bookman 25 November 2012
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A Conservative Scholar’s Wisdom - The Case for Conservatism by Francis Graham Wilson, with a new introduction by Russell Kirk. Transaction Publishers [1951, 1969, 1990, 2011], 74 pp., $20 paper.
Review 18 November 2012
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A Candle in the Darkness - Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner. Thomson/West (St. Paul), 2012608 pp., $49.95, cloth.
Best of the Bookman 18 November 2012
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The Character of Our Constitution - Rights and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution by Russell Kirk. Spence Publishing Company, 1997, 208 pp., $28 cloth.
Review 11 November 2012
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Pure Narrative Pleasure - Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman. Viking Adult, 2012, Cloth, 400 pages, $28.
