Interview 24 September 2012
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Omnipotence Is Provisional
an interview by JP O’Malley
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In a conversation with JP O’Malley, London-based novelist Will Self talks about why he doesn’t see himself as a British writer, how his latest novel is a tribute to James Joyce’s Ulysses, and why he considers every book he writes a failure.
Review 23 September 2012
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The Anatomy of the Good
David J. Davis
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Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
by Jennifer A. Herdt.
University of Chicago Press, [2008] 2012.
Paper, 467 pages, $35.
Best of the Bookman 23 September 2012
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Natural Law or Nihilism?
M. D. Aeschliman
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The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky by Russell Kirk. Regnery Gateway (1987), 132 pp.
Review 16 September 2012
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Endless Game of Thrones
Craig Bernthal
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A Song of Ice and Fire
by George R. R. Martin
(5 of 7 planned volumes).
Bantam, 1996–2012. Paper, 5232 pages, $75.
Best of the Bookman 16 September 2012
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Dos Passos: A Reassessment
Richard F. Hill
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In this “Best of the Bookman” essay from 1970, novelist Richard Hill offers a reappraisal of the writings of John Dos Passos, whose work always returns to “the dream of the little man, the small farmer and worker who wants to be free from centralization and tyranny.”
Review 16 September 2012
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Books in Little
Gerald J. Russello
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Brief reviews of books on distributism and Russell Kirk.
Interview 9 September 2012
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Cliché on a Hill
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
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A conversation with Richard M. Gamble, author of In Search of the City on a Hill.
On Essays and Letters 9 September 2012
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Our Rascally World
James V. Schall, S.J.
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Father Schall reflects on a letter from the great satirist Jonathan Swift to the poet Alexander Pope.
Essay 27 August 2012
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To College Students Considering a Course in American Poetry
Eugene Schlanger
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The Wall Street poet advises students, before registering for a class on poetry, to browse the poems of the last decade. We live in a period of strife—to say the least. Surely some contemporary American poet has observed something memorable in verse?
Symposium 27 August 2012
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The Bookman goes back to school
Bookman contributors
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The University Bookman has long had a focus on education. Indeed, the archive reveals numerous reviews of college and high-school textbooks, and of course our founder Russell Kirk wrote often on education. As we approach the beginning of another school year, we asked some of our contributors for their advice to students coming back this fall on how to make the best of their education.
Review 19 August 2012
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Glass Houses
AWR Hawkins
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At War with the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education by R. V. Young. ISI Books, 1999, 2004. 211 pages.
Best of the Bookman 19 August 2012
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The Declaration as the Constitution
Kevin R. Gutzman
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Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question by Harry V. Jaffa. Regnery Gateway, 1994, 386 pp., $24 hardcover.
Review 12 August 2012
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Resisting Ideology’s Reductionism
Richard M. Gamble
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The New Jacobinism: America as Revolutionary State (2d expanded ed.) by Claes G. Ryn. National Humanities Institute, 2011, 163 pp., paper, $15.
Best of the Bookman 12 August 2012
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An American Classic
Claes G. Ryn
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Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt. Foreword by Russell Kirk, Liberty Classics, 1979, 390 pp.
All great systems, ethical or political, attain their ascendency over the minds of men by virtue of their appeal to the imagination; and when they cease to touch the chords of wonder and mystery and hope, their power is lost, and men look elsewhere for some set of principles by which they may be guided.
Russell Kirk
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