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In Reuniting Rome with the Orthodox Dmitri Solzhenitsyn provides a careful theological and historical reflection on the prospects for full communion between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. He argues that unity is a moral and practical necessity, and that the obstacles standing in its way, though formidable, are more surmountable than they might seem.

With balance and precision, Solzhenitsyn:

• traces the arc of Orthodox–Catholic relations from the churches’ shared apostolic heritage to their growing divergence to the Great Schism of 1054;
• contends that the breakdown was ultimately fueled as much by a failure to practice love and charity as by doctrinal conflict; and
• finds hope for unity in the gradually warming relations between the churches seen since the twentieth century, as evidenced by symbolic reciprocal gestures and genuine theological breakthroughs.

Solzhenitsyn ends by offering a constructive vision for reunion, focusing on the core theological obstacles of papal authority and the filioque while also addressing broader Orthodox attitudes and the practical mechanics of reunion. In the end, he calls readers, Orthodox and Catholic alike, both to imagine what restored communion might look like in lived experience and to work—and pray—for unity.

With an introduction by Orthodox theologian Laurent Cleenewerck and an afterword by Roman Catholic theologian Aidan Nichols.

PUBLICATION DATE: October 27th, 2026

“If human bravery were a book, it would be To Build a Castle.”—Garry Kasparov

A major document in the literature of human rights, Vladimir Bukovsky’s To Build a Castle is a legendary memoir that has been hailed as a vital classic by figures ranging from Ronald Reagan to Tom Stoppard to Garry Kasparov.

At the age of twenty, Vladimir Bukovsky was falsely declared insane and committed to a psychiatric hospital—standard practice for communism’s critics in 1963. But the quack doctors and brutal guards who kept him captive didn’t realize: Bukovsky wasn’t locked up with them. They were locked up with Bukovsky.

In this haunting work, Bukovsky details with equal parts burning outrage and bitter humor the cruelties imposed upon Soviet prisoners of conscience. But he also recounts how he found his inner strength and built a fortress around it—the imaginary castle of the title—in which he could remain safe from the daily assaults on his body and mind.

In To Build a Castle, Bukovsky offers powerful firsthand testimony to the importance of personal integrity and perseverance under seemingly boundless oppression and abuse. For nearly fifty years, Bukovsky’s story has inspired dissidents, prisoners, and others trapped by circumstance with a profound truth: Even in chains, you can be free.

A worldwide bestseller when first published in 1978, this new edition, masterfully translated from the Russian by Michael Scammell, includes a major introduction by acclaimed political philosopher Daniel J. Mahoney.

PUBLICATION DATE: November 10th, 2026

In 1001 short, eminently readable paragraphs, John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed illuminate the people, places, myths, habits, history, and folklore that have made the South the nation’s most distinctive region. Idiosyncratic, cheeky, and informative, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South ranges from Stonewall Jackson to Mahalia Jackson, from William Byrd to “Free Bird,” from barbecue to Baptists to Bourbon Street.

Equal parts cultural history, reference book, bedside companion, and affectionate argument, this is a South populated by revival preachers and racecar drivers, Delta bluesmen and debutantes, fire ants and political demagogues, beauty queens and snake handlers. First published to wide acclaim in 1996, and now thoroughly revised and updated, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South combines deep knowledge with dry humor and an insider’s feel for the region’s paradoxes, absurdities, and enduring appeal. Read this book straight through or open it anywhere. Either way, you’ll come away knowing more about the South—and laughing far more than you expected.

PUBLICATION DATE: March 16^th, 2027

But what was he really like?

That’s the question Tom Wolfe—chronicler of American life through legendary works like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full—wanted biographers to answer. In this buoyant book-length study of the man, Joe Mysak, who first met Wolfe in 1977, obliges. 

Mysak shows us a Wolfe who was an assassin on the page yet prized politeness and manners. A Wolfe who was a caustic critic of the culturati yet was wildly ambitious and obsessed with status. A Wolfe whose stylistic innovations disrupted an entire era of American literature yet was accused of being a reactionary by many of his peers.

Drawing from the 236 boxes of Wolfe material in the New York Public Library, interviews with dozens of family members, friends, and acquaintances, and his personal relationship with his subject, Mysak skillfully traces Wolfe’s eventful life. From his youth in Richmond, Virginia, to his hitherto unknown years in graduate school at Yale, to his newspaper apprenticeship, to his takeover of the magazine world, to his popular success as a historian and novelist, Mysak gives us a portrait of Wolfe that is as revealing as it is recognizable.

PUBLICATION DATE: May 11^th, 2027

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1976).

With a new introduction by George Weigel.

Originally published in 1975, Paul Horgan’s beautifully crafted biography, a classic of the genre, chronicles the life of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814–88), New Mexico’s first resident bishop and the real-life inspiration for Willa Cather’s masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop.

In these pages, Horgan—who, besides his work as a historian, was also a novelist and artist—paints an unforgettable portrait of an indefatigable, charitable, and faithful missionary and churchman. He tells the story of Lamy’s many accomplishments, including the creation of hospitals, orphanages, schools, and colleges, and the story of the archbishop’s many conflicts—often with his own priests. More broadly, Horgan gives readers a vivid picture of that pivotal period in the history of the American Southwest when Spanish and Mexican rule slipped away.

Lamy of Santa Fe is filled with hardy, often extraordinary adventure. It is sustained both by its author’s captivating style and its subject’s magnificent strength of character.

PUBLICATION DATE: June 8^th, 2027

In Sparks of the Spirit: A Guide to the Enduring Wisdom of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the acclaimed political philosopher Daniel J. Mahoney provides compelling guide to one of the great titans of the twentieth century, the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 

Solzhenitsyn was a brilliant writer who fought evil with tenacity while chronicling totalitarianism’s assault on the human spirit. In Sparks of the Spirit, Mahoney takes readers on a voyage through Solzhenitsyn’s two great literary and historical masterworks, The Gulag Archipelago and The Red Wheel. Along the way, Mahoney brings to light Solzhenitsyn’s major themes and their importance for us today—themes including liberty under God, humane patriotism, the indispensability of self-limitation, and the drama of good and evil that always plays out in every human soul.

Solzhenitsyn’s work, Mahoney demonstrates, conveys a message of catharsis and hope that can help keep alive “the sparks of the spirit,” a fire always in danger of being snuffed out by false doctrines and ideologies. 

This lucid book will allow readers to penetrate as never before the enduring significance of a celebrated writer’s art and wisdom. 

PUBLICATION DATE: June 15^th, 2027

With a new introduction by Fernando Cervantes.

Five hundred years ago, in 1526, Hernán Cortés became the first governor of New Spain, a polity that would not have existed were it not for his profoundly improbable conquest of the powerful Aztec Empire, which dominated the region that is now Mexico. However one evaluates his accomplishments, few people have had a greater impact on the history of the Americas than did Cortés.

In this biography, first published in 1941, Salvador de Madariaga, one of the greatest Spanish historians of the twentieth century, provides a thrilling and balanced account of Cortés’s life and times. Madariaga grapples with both the Aztecs and the Spanish in the context of their times and on their own terms. He pulls no punches and is unafraid to make informed judgments. The result is a bracingly honest biography that refuses to engage in whitewashing, ritual condemnation, or hagiography. 

Anyone who wishes to transcend today’s highly tendentious and one-sided histories of the period in which Cortés made his mark must read this refreshingly candid classic.

PUBLICATION DATE: July 13^th, 2027

JD Vance has told the story of his upbringing, but the next chapter in the life of one of America’s most fascinating figures is being written before our eyes. In JD Vance: A Political Life, veteran political journalist Jim Antle explores Vance’s improbable rise from Appalachian storyteller to vice president of the United States, with an eye toward what’s next.

Antle provides a fast-moving, detailed account of the thrilling dynamics from two hotly contested campaigns in which Democrats sought to discredit Vance’s appeal to the working class. He takes a close look at the evolution of Vance’s political views as he became a leader of the new populist conservatism. And he draws from fresh interviews with Washington insiders and ordinary Ohio voters who helped fuel Vance’s rise, as well as from his decades of experience covering campaigns, Congress, the White House, and public policy. The result is a captivating book not just about the political career of one man, but about the choices and dilemmas ahead for his party, the conservative movement, and our country. 

Can anyone succeed Donald Trump? What would a Middle American electoral uprising look like if it were based on policy, solidarity, and community rather than personality? Is Vance up to leading such an effort? Antle provides insights and original reporting into the important questions facing America and its most consequential young leader.

PUBLICATION DATE: July 27^th, 2027

For decades, the prevailing narrative around European Catholicism was one of decline. Sociologists counted empty pews, historians dwelled on the end of Christendom, and secular Europe appeared to have settled, with little regret, into a post-Christian age. By every measurable indicator, the Catholic Church appeared to be dying.

The reality on the ground, however, tells a very different story. In The God-Thirsty: Inside the Unexpected Rebirth of Catholic Europe, journalist Solène Tadié travels across the continent to document a phenomenon few had anticipated: a quiet yet undeniable Catholic revival. Drawing on original reporting, official data, and interviews with religious leaders, thinkers, converts, missionaries, and ordinary believers from Norway to Hungary, Tadié uncovers a movement running against the dominant current of secularization. 

Tadié tells the story of small communities forming around a shared pursuit of beauty and radical commitment. She finds a rising generation drawn to demanding discipline rather than comfort. She discovers a surprising number of converts from Islam, often after powerful mystical experiences. And she describes monasteries filling up in countries where parish churches stand half-empty. 

This is a genuine renewal, Tadié concludes, but also a fragile one: chosen rather than inherited, dynamic yet still searching for the institutional support it will need to endure. The Catholic Church, its leaders, and its communities are being called to respond to a moment few expected — and whose significance is only now coming into view.

PUBLICATION DATE: August 17^th, 2027