Gerald Russello has done wonders with the University Bookman, with each issue now online as it comes out in print. Here is a splendid recent review by Caleb Stegall, founder of the late-great web journal the New Pantagruel:
The need for an alternative American myth—one that is situated in a usable past of a particular time and place—is real and pressing. But housing that past in a museum is a false remedy, partaking of the same derailments of therapeutic management that grip the man with a pathological need for endless fresh starts. The human need for belonging is fundamentally outside our control; it is something achieved only in submission. The most basic lesson may be that a usable past requires a usable present.
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The entire issue has many pieces devoted to matters agrarian. The UB is also running web-only reviews, such as this one of Wendell Berry's Andy Catlett by Robert Cheeks:
