“Reviewing Books that Build Culture.”
Founded by Russell Kirk in 1960 and currently edited by Gerald J. Russello, The University Bookman is the flagship journal of the Russell Kirk Center and one of America’s premier reviewer publications. In its pages, readers find thoughtful assessments of leading books and authors written by some of today’s most gifted conservative minds.
Eugene Genovese, George Nash, Brad Miner, Gleaves Whitney, E. Christian Kopff, Vigen Guroian, Grace Goodell, Bruce Frohnen, Brian Anderson, Peter A. Lawler, Russell Hittinger, and Wilfred McClay are some of the men and women of learning and literary talent who appear in the pages of the Bookman. Additionally, the Bookman regularly features the writing of today’s brightest young thinkers—often introducing them for the first time to the reading public. It is available at better bookstores and newsstands nationwide.
In 2006 The University Bookman garnered national attention and increased its profile in the pages of the New York Times and is featured in the landmark new work, American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia.
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“The University Bookman is back! If you are interested in books, in what’s happening to our culture, in the depredations of the cultural mandarins in our colleges and universities, you will have heard of the University Bookman. It has a distinguished past, being the brain child of Russell Kirk. Now it is once again essential reading for anyone interested in the books and ideas that matter. Here’s a real alternative to the sclerotic orthodoxies of the illiberal liberal mainstreams reviews. Don’t miss it!”
Roger Kimball
co-editor and publisher, The New Criterion
Publisher, Encounter Books“The University Bookman is one of the grand old institutions in conservative-movement publishing. I look forward to each new issue because smart writing about good books—plus a few bad ones—is such a rare thing.”
John J. Miller, National Review
It is a source of wonder, and a cause for gratitude, that The University Bookman is still going strong in its fifth decade of publication, now under the sure editorial hand of Gerald Russello. No other publication more faithfully perpetuates the humane and imaginative spirit of its founder, Russell Kirk, in its unique combination of high seriousness, critical vigor, loyalty to the permanent things, and whimsical charm. In a time when the words ‘university’ and ‘book’ seem to have fallen under a dark cloud of suspicion, The University Bookman serves, by its very existence, to redeem them both.
Wilfred McClay, SunTrust Professor of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee
For nearly five decades The University Bookman has edified American letters with serious reviews of serious books. Every issue of this unpretentious journal broadens and deepens the conversation among its readers about things that matter. The University Bookman belongs in every conservative’s working library.
George H. Nash, author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945